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Journal of Policy Studies
Graduate School of Public Administration, Seoul National University

J. Policy Stud. 2024; 39(3):13-31

pISSN: 2799-9130, eISSN: 2800-0714

DOI: https://doi.org/10.52372/jps39302

Article

France: Which Prospects of Hybridization for the Neo-Weberian State in the Homeland of the ‘State-in Majesty’?

Jean-Michel Eymeri-Douzans1
1Sciences Po Toulouse

ⓒ Copyright 2024 Graduate School of Public Administration, Seoul National University. This is an Open-Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Received: Jul 10, 2024; Accepted: Sep 07, 2024

Published Online: Sep 30, 2024

Abstract

In this article, after recalling the historicity of the French ‘State-in-Majesty’ and its current politico-administrative regime (section 2), we will assess the French case against Pollitt and Bouckaert’s model and demonstrate how nowadays France corresponds to a hybridized Neo-Weberian State (section 3). Then, section 4 will demonstrate how the never-ending triple French State reform develops as a specific and multilevel interplay of the ‘five Ms’. Turning to the upgraded definition of the NWS as an ‘omega’ for our turbulent times, section 5 will defend the thesis that the robust, resilient French Neo-Weberian State is well equipped to democratically govern poly-crises and master three current ‘great transformations’, provided it is not captured by illiberal populists (section 6).

Keywords: Neo-Weberian State; France; sociology of the State; Administrative reforms; public policies