Influence As Power: French Local Government Reconsidered
- 1 April 1974
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in British Journal of Political Science
- Vol. 4 (2) , 139-161
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0007123400009443
Abstract
Administrative centralization has been a fact of life in France since Louis XIV. Political analysts have alternately praised the system as ‘the envy of all Europe’ and condemned it as ‘a glittering example of “blockage” in our society’. Very few of them have, however, made any serious effort to study the impact of centralized structures on local governments. The literature is remarkable for the absence of empirical research on the exercise of power by elected local officials in France.Keywords
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