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French society has undergone profound changes over the past several centuries, and major historical events have brought radical political and social changes to the French administration. The 1789 Revolution led to the abolition of the monarchy, the society of orders and privileges, and the spread of the power of the Catholic Church. France became a secular state founded on a Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen. Since then, the country has experienced alternative and hectic changes under successive liberal and interventionist governments. In the recent past, a very bureaucratic and centralized administration has developed, enhanced by the creation of the European Community embodied in the 1957 Treaty of Rome. The bureaucratic state, however, is not immune to economic crises and globalization.
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Couston, A., Liddle, J., Fouchet, R. (2015). France. In: Van Wart, M., Hondeghem, A., Schwella, E., Suino, P. (eds) Leadership and Culture. Governance and Public Management Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137454133_15
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