TY - JOUR
T1 - The service public under stress
AU - COLE, Alistair Mark
N1 - Copyright:
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PY - 1999/10
Y1 - 1999/10
N2 - This essay elucidates the various meanings of the elusive notion of service public. Service public is an abstract legal doctrine, a set of normative values, a category of public employment and a form of economic activity. The main body of the essay appraises European, national and sub-national challenges to traditional French understandings of the service public. Through observing examples of ideological and organisational resistance, the essay concludes that, though French policy makers have confronted the challenges to the service public in a manner consistent with their political traditions, the French policy has mutated under the combined impact of internal and external pressures for change.
AB - This essay elucidates the various meanings of the elusive notion of service public. Service public is an abstract legal doctrine, a set of normative values, a category of public employment and a form of economic activity. The main body of the essay appraises European, national and sub-national challenges to traditional French understandings of the service public. Through observing examples of ideological and organisational resistance, the essay concludes that, though French policy makers have confronted the challenges to the service public in a manner consistent with their political traditions, the French policy has mutated under the combined impact of internal and external pressures for change.
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U2 - 10.1080/01402389908425338
DO - 10.1080/01402389908425338
M3 - Journal article
AN - SCOPUS:0033511198
SN - 0140-2382
VL - 22
SP - 166
EP - 184
JO - West European Politics
JF - West European Politics
IS - 4
ER -