Confronted by globalisation, societies must make their social-institutional systems evolve. during this process, countries with centralizing cultures such as France experience many difficulties, as it is shown by the relationship between the French State and its commons. The study of representations of the local authority enables us to identify the ideological and cognitive sources directing the political-administrative standards and practices. Hence, we can better understand why decentralization, which allows local autonomy, contravenes a national model of bi-secular institutional rationality.
Roggero, Pascal
Sociologie des représentations du pouvoir local : l'État français et ses communes, Série monographique en sciences humaines 10/HumanSciences Monograph Series 10, 2006, 360 p.
ISBN: 0-88667-068-3
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