DEA « PUBLIC ACTION AND CONTEMPORARY
COMPANIES » - HIGHER TEACHER TRAINING SCHOOL OF CACHAN- 2000/2001
DIRECTOR OF THE MEMORY : Jean-Claude
Thoenig
REGIONAL ROOMS ACCOUNTS
THE REGIONAL ROOM OF HIGH-NORMANDY
For a sociological approach of a local system of action
and a setting in prospect for the action of the financial magistrates through
the role of the external financial control exerted by the regional rooms of the
accounts (1982- 2000)
DEA « PUBLIC ACTION AND CONTEMPORARY
COMPANIES » - HIGHER TEACHER TRAINING SCHOOL OF CACHAN-
2000/2001
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General note of presentation
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Introduction
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I- STRUCTURAL DATA OF THE LOCAL SYSTEM OF
ACTION : LOCAL COMMUNITIES, THE REPRESENTATIVE OF THE
STATE, THE REGIONAL ROOM OF THE ACCOUNTS
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THE PHÉNONEME OF DECENTRALIZATION AND THE
CONTROL OF THE ACCOUNTS
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DIMENSIONS CONSTITUTIVE OF TERRITORIAL PUBLIC
MANAGEMENT
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[1) The national definition of
competences
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[2) The local distribution of
competences
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THE RESOURCES (RECEIPTS) OF THE LOCAL
COMMUNITIES : FORM OF THE MECHANISMS OF SOLIDARITY ENTERS
THE CENTER AND THE PERIPHERY THEN BETWEEN THE VARIOUS ELEMENTS OF THE
PERIPHERY
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[1) The use of the equalization like vertical
redistributive mechanism
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[2) Emergence of mechanisms of horizontal
equalization
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[3) Funds of correction of regional
imbalances
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[4) Financial power of the local
authorities
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TERRITORIAL POLYMORPHISM AUTHORIZES A FLEXIBLE PUBLIC
ACTION
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[1) The aiming rationnalisatrice of the
reforms of territorial regrouping emanating from the center
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[2) A flexible public action
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THE DYNAMICS OF DEVOLUTION LIKE METHOD OF THE NEW
RELATIONS CENTER-PERIPHERIES AND CHANGES OF THE METHODS OF THE
SUPERVISION
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[1) Devolution in the French case
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[2) Implementation a recent
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THE STATE AND TERRITORIAL PUBLIC
MANAGEMENT : A DELEGATION OF POWERS AND MEANS TOGETHER
WITH A PERMANENCE OF THE MODE OF FINANCIAL AND BUDGETARY CONTROL
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[1) The remanence of the central eye on the
territorial funds
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[2) An obliged partnership
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A POLITICAL AUTONOMY UNDER CONTROL
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[3) Establishment of the budget like initial
vector of the local public policies
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[4) A control in the shape of iron
triangle
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[5) The fundamental role of the
Prefect
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THE ROLE OF THE REGIONAL ROOMS OF THE ACCOUNTS IN THE
FINANCIAL ANALYSIS OF THE LOCAL COMMUNITIES
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[1) Missions of the regional rooms of the
accounts
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[2) Quantitative elements
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The Regional Room of the Accounts of
High-Normandy
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Quantitative elements of the activity of the
regional rooms at the national level
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[3) Some concrete cases of public
affairs
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II - OUTLINE OF ANALYSIS OF THE OPERATING MODE OF THE
REGIONAL ROOM OF THE ACCOUNTS
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THE OPERATION OF THE REGIONAL ROOM OF THE
ACCOUNTS
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[1) General organization of the rooms
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[2) The characteristic of the regional rooms
of the accounts
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THE ORGANIZATION INTERNS ROOM
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[1) The diary : programming of controls
and rationalization of the means
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[2) An increasing rationalization of the
activities
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[3) The autonomy of the magistrate
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[4) At the rate/rhythm of the
organization : collegial structure and contradiction
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THE PLACE OF THE REGIONAL ROOM OF THE ACCOUNTS IN THE
POLITICO-ADMINISTRATIVE SYSTEM OF REGULATION
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[1) What it is not : the example of the
Independent Administrative Authorities
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THE TRADE OF FINANCIAL MAGISTRATE STRONGLY FRAMED BY
THE MEMBERS OF THE COURT OF AUDITORS
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[1) Members of a body
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[2) Division of the labor within a regional
room of the accounts
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[3) The trade of magistrate within the
room
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[4) An organization in network directed by the
members of the Court of Auditors
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III- THE FINANCIAL MAGISTRATE OF THE REGIONAL ROOM OF
THE ACCOUNTS IN THE SYSTEM OF FRENCH REGULATION
POLITICO-ADMINISTRATIVE
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COMPARATIVE STEP OF THE RECENT POLITICO-ADMINISTRATIVE
EVOLUTIONS
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[1) Various levels of the Public action :
the European example
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[2) Evolutions of the paradigms related to
public control
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[3) Jurisdictional control versus the system
of the Audit
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THE SYSTEM OF LOCAL ACTION IN THE POLITICAL
ARENA
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[1) Local public problems
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[2) Relations between the room and the
Prefects
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[3) The regional room and the legal
judge
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THE INTEGRATION OF THE STAKES AT THE NATIONAL
LEVEL
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[1) A political process which contributed to
solidify the perimeter of intervention of the regional rooms of the
accounts
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[2) The Senate like aggregation of the local
political claims and receptacle of the capacities of political
integration
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[3) Differentiated requests for
adaptation
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[4) Depth of the networks of public
action
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[5) Synoptic table of the networks of actors
related to the system of action
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NATIONAL POSITION, LOCAL POSITION :
EXAMINATION OF MANAGEMENT TO THE EVALUATION OF THE PUBLIC
POLICIES
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[1) A magistrate is not Préfet :
two bodies of the king
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[2) The control of management or the
evaluation of the public policies ?
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[3) Towards a significant evolution of the
mode of regulation ?
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[4) Integration and not-resolution of
problems
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[5) The French model of the
against-role
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CONCLUSION.
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A system of action directed towards a marginal
adjustment
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The answer of the magistrates
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GENERAL BIBLIOGRAPHY
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General note of
presentation
I make a point of thanking the President for the regional room of
High-Normandy, Mrs Lamarque, for the reception which she agreed to hold to me,
like all the magistrates and collaborators of the room of High-Normandy.
On the report as such, I tried to apply some concepts and to use
different in order to elucidate as much as possible the few questions presented
in introduction. The report is not exhaustive but I tried as well as possible
to use that I had, taking into account the means or information to which I
could have access.
I am in addition persuaded, following this drafting, that work of
the comparative type, including/understanding the countries of Eastern Europe
and from the European point of view, can be profitable to enrich a sociological
approach by the phenomena politico-administrative related to the reorganization
of the territories.
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