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The Evolution of Public Personnel Systems in France: Structure and Reforms

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The French Fonction publique (Public Personnel System) – we should rather use this term in the plural form and speak of public personnel services because there has been a “three-pillared” system since the early eighties, comprising national, local (territorial) and hospital civil servants – is today the butt of harsh and unfair criticism, often with unnecessarily polemical undertones.1 But this system was for long France’s “showcase”, illustrating France’s exception – with its own prestigious symbols (the ENA), its heroic figures (Pierre Massé, François BlochLainé, Simon Nora), its undisputed achievements (its significant role in the modernisation of the State during the boom period of the “Glorious Thirty Years” (Sadran 1993: 148). It was an institution which was both trusted and supported by political power, notably by General De Gaulle (Salon 1990: 430).

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    Pierre Sadran

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Sadran, P. (2006). The Evolution of Public Personnel Systems in France: Structure and Reforms. In: Hoffmann-Martinot, V., Wollmann, H. (eds) State and Local Government Reforms in France and Germany. Urban and Regional Research International, vol 7. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-531-90271-5_4

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