Le pantouflage en France (vers 1880-vers 1980) - article ; n°5 ; vol.42, pg 1115-1137

Christophe Charle

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Annales. Économies, Sociétés, Civilisations - Année 1987 - Volume 42 - Numéro 5 - Pages 1115-1137
Pantouflage in France.
The movement of upper-level bureaucrats into the private sector (le pantouflage) has been developing in France for about a century. This article attempts to synthesize the monographs on the subject, clarifying it in the light of new research and opening up new avenues of interpretation suggesting further studies. This phenomenon first appeared in the stratum of bureaucrats with technical capabilities (e.g. state engineers and finance inspectors), then in the main body of bureaucrats—due to political purges—and finally, in the twentieth century, amongst high-level army officers. The reasons vary with the particular stratum in question, economic and administrative conjonctures, the age of resigning bureaucrats and their social extraction. At a deeper level this phenomenon is a sign of the disfunctioning of the French administration, especially during the Third Republic but also of the lack, up until the years between the two World Wars, of channels designed to provide special training to upper-level officials in economic sectors who were partly siphoned off from the public sector. This brain drain, whose importance should not be over-stated, was not entirely negative in its effects; it led in the long run to a reform of the administration's all too obvious shortcomings, and contributed to the indirect democratization of recruitment in business circles. It contributes to economic power's domination over th efield of administrative power, even when social differentiation of recruitment of these two types of elites is accentuated.
23 pages
Source : Persée ; Ministère de la jeunesse, de l’éducation nationale et de la recherche, Direction de l’enseignement supérieur, Sous-direction des bibliothèques et de la documentation.

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• Sociologie, société et politique

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• Publié par: ANNALES_ECONOMIES_SOCIETES_CIVILISATIONS
• Publié le: 01 janvier 1987
• Nombre de lectures: 25
• Langue: Français
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 2 Mo

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Christophe Charle

Le pantouflage en France (vers 1880-vers 1980) In: Annales. Économies, Sociétés, Civilisations. 42e année, N. 5, 1987. pp. 1115-1137.

Abstract "Pantouflage" in France.

The movement of upper-level bureaucrats into the private sector (le pantouflage) has been developing in France for about a century. This article attempts to synthesize the monographs on the subject, clarifying it in the light of new research and opening up new avenues of interpretation suggesting further studies. This phenomenon first appeared in the stratum of bureaucrats with technical capabilities (e.g. state engineers and finance inspectors), then in the main body of bureaucrats—due to political purges—and finally, in the twentieth century, amongst high-level army officers. The reasons vary with the particular stratum in question, economic and administrative conjonctures, the age of resigning bureaucrats and their social extraction. At a deeper level this phenomenon is a sign of the disfunctioning of the French administration, especially during the Third Republic but also of the lack, up until the years between the two World Wars, of channels designed to provide special training to upper-level officials in economic sectors who were partly siphoned off from the public sector. This "brain drain", whose importance should not be over-stated, was not entirely negative in its effects; it led in the long run to a reform of the administration's all too obvious shortcomings, and contributed to the indirect democratization of recruitment in business circles. It contributes to economic power's domination over th efield of administrative power, even when social differentiation of recruitment of these two types of elites is accentuated.

Citer ce document / Cite this document : Charle Christophe. Le pantouflage en France (vers 1880-vers 1980). In: Annales. Économies, Sociétés, Civilisations. 42e année, N. 5, 1987. pp. 1115-1137. doi : 10.3406/ahess.1987.283438 http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/ahess 0395-2649 1987 num 42 5 283438 _ _ _ _ _ _