Politicians, Bureaucrats and Leadership in Organizations: Lessons from Regional Planning in France

Contents......Page 6
Acknowledgements......Page 8
List of Tables and Figures......Page 9
List of Abbreviations......Page 11
Political leadership in government......Page 14
Assessing the impact of political leaders......Page 22
Politicians, bureaucrats and regional planning in France......Page 30
The Service de l'aménagement du territoire......Page 37
The Direction de l'aménagement du territoire......Page 43
An ephemeral ministry......Page 50
The creation of DATAR......Page 51
Conclusions......Page 54
3 Links to the Leadership: Positional or Personal?......Page 58
The importance of location......Page 59
An empirical assessment of the effects of location......Page 68
The effects of economic contingencies......Page 74
Leadership interest: an empirical analysis......Page 76
Conclusions......Page 82
4 Ensuring Responsiveness, Competence and Loyalty......Page 85
Choosing the top official......Page 86
Steering the agency's recruitment and activities......Page 97
Conclusions......Page 109
5 Steering Policy through Administrative and Financial Tools......Page 112
The administrative tools......Page 113
The financial tools: budgets, funds and contracts......Page 130
Conclusions......Page 147
The chief bureaucratic players......Page 150
Road planning decisions compared......Page 154
Exercising political leadership......Page 171
Conclusions......Page 180
7 Regionalization......Page 184
The chief bureaucratic players and the élus......Page 185
Regionalization decisions compared......Page 190
Exercising political leadership......Page 209
Conclusions......Page 217
8 Lessons from Regional Planning in France......Page 221
Political leadership and bureaucratic organizations......Page 222
Politicians, bureaucrats and leadership......Page 236
Appendix I: Political leaders 1944–2008......Page 244
References......Page 251
C......Page 268
D......Page 269
H......Page 271
M......Page 272
P......Page 273
Z......Page 274