Planification et réforme administrative en France

Abstract

Planning and administrative reform in France Planning, just like administrative reform, is a rationalization exercice, a purposeful action. Hence administrative reform and planning have things in common although no relationship has so far been established between them. Planning in France has resulted from considerations that have nothing to do with administrative reform. Its targets and its responsible bodies are therefore rather specific, yet its scope of action overlaps in many instances with that of administrative reform. Since planning is implemented through administrative channels, it acts upon this machinery and therefore contributes to its reform. Planning has to rely on a well-adjusted administrative machinery to become effective. Planning intervenes to transform administration on various levels : it contributes to reorganization, coordination, and adjustment of administration to its environment. By introducing various and important changes into administration, planning could have played a vital part in administrative reform. That this did not happen is mainly due to the fact that planning itself, despite its initial basic intent, remained quite limited in scope and unable to develop ail its potentialities.