We study how state practitioners account for the shape and action of the state. We focus on the implementation, from the early 2000s onwards, of a reform of public management in France which called for a revision of the description of the boundaries and achievements of the action of the state. The reform targeted the rules governing the budgetary process and included, along with new accounting methods, new forms of reporting and assessment aimed at identifying the performance of governmental and administrative action. We consider the implementation process as a set of trials of explicitness in which a number of state practitioners struggled to elucidate the meaning of the reform and were confronted with pragmatic interrogations on what the state is and does. We analyze, using archival material, a number of such trials in the domain of national science and research policy, focusing on the development of managerial vocabularies and performance metrics.
Trials of explicitness in the implementation of public management reform
Résumé
en
We study how state practitioners account for the shape and action of the state. We focus on the implementation, from the early 2000s onwards, of a reform of public management in France which called for a revision of the description of the boundaries and achievements of the action of the state. The reform targeted the rules governing the budgetary process and included, along with new accounting methods, new forms of reporting and assessment aimed at identifying the performance of governmental and administrative action. We consider the implementation process as a set of trials of explicitness in which a number of state practitioners struggled to elucidate the meaning of the reform and were confronted with pragmatic interrogations on what the state is and does. We analyze, using archival material, a number of such trials in the domain of national science and research policy, focusing on the development of managerial vocabularies and performance metrics.
Auteur(s)
Fabian Muniesa1
, Dominique Linhardt1, 2
1
CSI i3 -
Centre de Sociologie de l'Innovation i3
( 445513 )
- 60 Boulevard Saint Michel 75006 PARIS
- France
Mines Paris - PSL (École nationale supérieure des mines de Paris) ( 301492 )
;
Université Paris Sciences et Lettres ( 564132 )
;
Institut interdisciplinaire de l’innovation ( 1159016 )
;
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique UMR9217 ( 441569 )
2
IMM -
Institut Marcel Mauss
( 11735 )
- 54 Bvd Raspail 75006 PARIS
- France
École des hautes études en sciences sociales ( 99539 )
;
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique UMR8178 ( 441569 )
Comité de lecture
Oui
Vulgarisation
Non
Langue du document
Anglais
Nom de la revue
Critical Perspectives On Accounting
(ISSN : 1045-2354, ISSN électronique : 1095-9955)
Publié par Elsevier
Revue non référencée dans Sherpa-Romeo
H - Public Economics/H.H1 - Structure and Scope of Government/H.H1.H11 - Structure, Scope, and Performance of Government
M - Business Administration and Business Economics • Marketing • Accounting • Personnel Economics/M.M4 - Accounting and Auditing/M.M4.M41 - Accounting
M - Business Administration and Business Economics • Marketing • Accounting • Personnel Economics/M.M4 - Accounting and Auditing/M.M4.M48 - Government Policy and Regulation
O - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth/O.O3 - Innovation • Research and Development • Technological Change • Intellectual Property Rights/O.O3.O38 - Government Policy
O - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth/O.O3 - Innovation • Research and Development • Technological Change • Intellectual Property Rights/O.O3.O32 - Management of Technological Innovation and R&D
Z - Other Special Topics/Z.Z1 - Cultural Economics • Economic Sociology • Economic Anthropology/Z.Z1.Z13 - Economic Sociology • Economic Anthropology • Language • Social and Economic Stratification
Domaine(s)
Sciences de l'Homme et Société/Sociologie
Sciences de l'Homme et Société/Gestion et management
Sciences de l'Homme et Société/Science politique
Projet(s) ANR
Action publique, épreuve comptable et performance : analyse socio-technique de la réforme des finances publiques en France
[En savoir plus]
PRAGMALOLF -
ANR-05-BLAN-0391
BLANC
- 2005
Mots-clés
en
New Public Management, Public administration, The State, France, LOLF, Performance measurement, Science and technology policy, Pragmatic sociology, Actor-Network Theory
Fabian Muniesa, Dominique Linhardt. Trials of explicitness in the implementation of public management reform. Critical Perspectives On Accounting, 2011, 22 (6), pp.550-566. ⟨10.1016/j.cpa.2011.06.003⟩. ⟨halshs-00611174⟩