Governing from the Centre Core Executive Coordiation in France [Hardcover]

Two leading authors challenge the assumption that France has a well coordinated government. The constitutional, political,and policy frameworks of coordination are critically assessed in relation to the central actors and spending ministries, as well as the formal and informal mechanisms of coordination. Four case studies are examined; the European Union, budget, privatization and immigration policy processes. The book concludes with forthright findings on a fragment executive struggling to steer a disparate and partially paralyzed institutional structure.

Part I The Complexities of French Core Executive Coordination
The French Context of Coordination: a Fractured Indivisible Republic
The Normative, Political, and Administrative Frameworks
Hierarchical and Horizontal Coordination: the Central Actors
Vertical Fragmentation: the Spending Ministries
Part II Sectoral Policy Coordination: Four Case Studies
European Union Coordination and the Core Executive
Tactical Privatisation: Changing the Mix in the Mixed Economy
Coordinating the Response to Immigration Pressures: an Unending Quest
Part III Conclusions
Overall Coordination: the Impracticable Imperative