L'évaluation des politiques publiques, avatar de la planification
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Université Pierre Mendès France (Grenoble)Disciplines:
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Abstract EN:
This thesis deals with the history of the theme of policy evaluation in contemporary france (1946 until now). In particular, it gives an explanation to the failure of prime minister michel rocard's policy aiming at co-ordinating and developing policy evaluation practice within the french state administration and within subnational tiers of government. The present work validates the following hypothesis. The policy evaluation theme, which has been imported from the united states in the sixties, has been shaped until today by diverse social processes which + mythify ; central planning in france. In recent years, in the french high administration, these mythification processes has turned so depreciatory that a policy evaluation policy could but fail, in spite of strong prime minister's political support. In conclusion, concerning the rationalization of public affairs guidance in france, the american technological influence has been very strong since the end of wwii. However, the french specificy of high civil servants corporatism has increasingly filtered the gouvernmental + techno-sciences ; elaborated and experimented on the other side of the atlantic ocean. This filtration is a good illustration of how the french social sciences community is more and more prevented from influencing the evolutions of public action's rational frameworks. Hence, in a way, this thesis is a contribution to the questionning raised by cohen and lindblom in their book + usable knowledge ; (1979).
Abstract FR:
Cette these retrace l'histoire du theme de l'evaluation des politiques publiques au sein de l'etat central francais. La periode etudiee s'etend de 1946 a nos jours. L'objectif du travail est d'apporter des elements de comprehension et d'explication a l'echec de la politique nationale de developpement de l'evaluation lancee officiellement en 1990 a l'initiative du premier ministre michel rocard. Ce travail enonce et valide l'hypothese descriptive suivante. Le theme de l'evaluation, importe des etats-unis par les planificateurs centraux francais des les annees 1960, a ete faconne et reste fortement marque par les diverses formes de mythification de la planification nationale << performees >> par les acteurs de l'etat central francais. Le caractere aujourd'hui globalement negatif que prennent ces entreprises centrales de mythification est a l'origine de l'echec de la politique nationale d'evaluation evoquee ci-dessus. Cette these fonde finalement l'hypothese interpretative suivante. En matiere de technologies francaises de rationalisation de la conduite des affaires publiques, l'influence americaine a ete grande des la fin de la seconde guerre mondiale. Cependant, cette specificite politicoadministrative francaise que constitue l'existence des grands corps de l'etat a opere un filtrage de plus en plus fin des techno-sciences gouvernementales americaines, au point qu'aujourd'hui les sciences sociales francaises contribuent peu a l'evolution des cadres rationnels de l'action publique.