Ezra N Suleiman
Biographic Data
| ID | 274375 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ezra N Suleiman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ezra N |
| FAMILY NAME | Suleiman |
| SIGNATURE | SULEIMAN E N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Princeton University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 76 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
The Political Economy of Public Sector Reform and Privatization
Elites in French Society
The European Commission and Bureaucratic Autonomy
This book examines the struggle of the European Union bureaucracy to maintain its autonomy in an increasingly complex institutional setting and adverse political environment. Using an original survey of nearly two hundred top European Commission officials, it shows that the Commission is a coherent organization that shares a common culture of supranationalism. The European Union's multicephalous structure of political authority limits the capacit…
Supranationalism in a Transnational Bureaucracy
While a significant body of scholarly work suggests that we can best understand the policy output of international bureaucracies by focusing on the preferences of their political masters, this article joins those looking 'inside' such bureaucracies to comprehend their behaviour. Using an original data set from nearly 200 interviewees, the article examines the policy preferences of top bureaucrats of the European Commission. It shows that top Comm…
Reforming the Commission
The article uses evidence from an original survey of 200 top Commission officials to highlight the schizophrenic nature of the Kinnock reforms. It shows that the push toward the ‘modernization’ of the Commission has been accompanied by a trend towards ‘bureaucratization’. The findings of the survey challenge the dominant view that the reform project was largely a move toward the institutional paradigm set by new public management (NPM). Based on …
Dismantling Democratic States
Unmitigated Gaul
L’État a-t-il un avenir dans une société qui se méfie de lui
Does State Have a Future in a Society Which Holds It Suspect ? In ‘undoing’ State, the American nation has deprived the central government of the power to act. The incapacity of the federal authorities to resolve problems has resulted in substantial reactions of rejection of the political System. This implies avoiding, in France and elsewhere, the decline of the community spirit
Private Power and Centralization in France
By examining the relationship between the notaires, members of a significant French legal profession with deep roots in French history, and the state, Ezra Suleiman demonstrates that clientelism exists and may be more dangerous in a centralized state than in a decentralized one.Originally published in 1988.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the disting…
Tu seras president, mon fils. Anatomie des grandes ecoles et malformations des elites
State Structures and Clientelism
The autonomy of a state is thought to depend on the state's structures. This widely accepted view of the policy-making process has given rise to an uncontested assertion: states that possess centralized administrative structures are better able than decentralized states to formulate and implement policies independently of societal pressures.Is a decentralized state more permeable than a centralized one? We seek to answer this question by treating…
Higher education in France
1978). Higher education in France: A two‐track system. West European Politics: Vol. 1, Conflict and Consensus in France, pp. 97-114
Ou va l'Administration Francaise
The Myth of Technical Expertise
No country has been more admired (or criticized) than France for the manner in which it trains specialists and technicians destined to occupy the highest posts in the public and private sectors. It is the country where, as David Granick noted some years ago, the technocrat has the strongest position, where he in fact reigns supreme.1 The grandes c that is, as part of the elite's strategy to preserve its dominant position.2 If the leaders of Franc…
Self-Image, Legitimacy and the Stability of Elites
Why do some elites endure whereas other die? This is a question to which many historians and social theorists have addressed themselves in trying to explain the severe conflicts that have plagued particular societies. It is, of course, a truism that certain societies are more prone to conflicts and to instability than others. But even within such societies there often lies, beneath the all too evident turbulence, a considerable stability of certa…
Les hauts fonctionnaires et la politique
Politics, Power and Bureaucracy in France
Politics, Power, and Bureaucracy in France
L'administrateur et le député en France
L'administrateur et le député en France, par Ezra N. Suleiman La distance qui sépare les députés des fonctionnaires est grande. Elle repose sur des facteurs politiques et historiques plutôt que strictement sociaux. Toute analyse des rapports entre politiciens et fonctionnaires doit tenir compte de la lutte âpre qui a eu lieu entre ces deux groupes sous la Troisième République où les fonctionnaires revendiquaient leur sécurité et leur autonomie ta…
Sur les limites de la mentalité bureaucratique
Analyser l'organisation bureaucratique comme une unité spécifique, par rapport à quoi s'expliquent les comportements de ses membres ; chercher à interpréter les représentations et les attitudes des fonctionnaires par référence à leurs origines sociales et au milieu de socialisation qui les forme, ce sont là deux voies bien connues. Peut-être conduisent-elles à trop de schématisme et de même que 1'ouvrier devenant contremaître modifie certains de …
The French Bureaucracy and its Students
Future revolutions will doubtless be directed against the admin- JL istration and not against the political system.” Thus states one writer in the opening sentence of his book on l'Administration au pouvoir. There is little doubt that the institution in France that today bears the brunt of attacks coming from the entire range of the political, economic, and social spectrum, is the French administration—the state bureaucracy that, since the early …
Reforming the Commission
The article uses evidence from an original survey of 200 top Commission officials to highlight the schizophrenic nature of the Kinnock reforms. It shows that the push toward the ‘modernization’ of the Commission has been accompanied by a trend towards ‘bureaucratization’. The findings of the survey challenge the dominant view that the reform project was largely a move toward the institutional paradigm set by new public management (NPM). Based on …
Supranationalism in a Transnational Bureaucracy
While a significant body of scholarly work suggests that we can best understand the policy output of international bureaucracies by focusing on the preferences of their political masters, this article joins those looking 'inside' such bureaucracies to comprehend their behaviour. Using an original data set from nearly 200 interviewees, the article examines the policy preferences of top bureaucrats of the European Commission. It shows that top Comm…
State Structures and Clientelism
The autonomy of a state is thought to depend on the state's structures. This widely accepted view of the policy-making process has given rise to an uncontested assertion: states that possess centralized administrative structures are better able than decentralized states to formulate and implement policies independently of societal pressures.Is a decentralized state more permeable than a centralized one? We seek to answer this question by treating…
Private Power and Centralization in France
By examining the relationship between the notaires, members of a significant French legal profession with deep roots in French history, and the state, Ezra Suleiman demonstrates that clientelism exists and may be more dangerous in a centralized state than in a decentralized one.Originally published in 1988.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the disting…
Dismantling Democratic States
The Myth of Technical Expertise
No country has been more admired (or criticized) than France for the manner in which it trains specialists and technicians destined to occupy the highest posts in the public and private sectors. It is the country where, as David Granick noted some years ago, the technocrat has the strongest position, where he in fact reigns supreme.1 The grandes c that is, as part of the elite's strategy to preserve its dominant position.2 If the leaders of Franc…
The French Bureaucracy and its Students
Future revolutions will doubtless be directed against the admin- JL istration and not against the political system.” Thus states one writer in the opening sentence of his book on l'Administration au pouvoir. There is little doubt that the institution in France that today bears the brunt of attacks coming from the entire range of the political, economic, and social spectrum, is the French administration—the state bureaucracy that, since the early …
Higher education in France
1978). Higher education in France: A two‐track system. West European Politics: Vol. 1, Conflict and Consensus in France, pp. 97-114
Self-Image, Legitimacy and the Stability of Elites
Why do some elites endure whereas other die? This is a question to which many historians and social theorists have addressed themselves in trying to explain the severe conflicts that have plagued particular societies. It is, of course, a truism that certain societies are more prone to conflicts and to instability than others. But even within such societies there often lies, beneath the all too evident turbulence, a considerable stability of certa…
Politics, Power, and Bureaucracy in France
L'administrateur et le député en France
L'administrateur et le député en France, par Ezra N. Suleiman La distance qui sépare les députés des fonctionnaires est grande. Elle repose sur des facteurs politiques et historiques plutôt que strictement sociaux. Toute analyse des rapports entre politiciens et fonctionnaires doit tenir compte de la lutte âpre qui a eu lieu entre ces deux groupes sous la Troisième République où les fonctionnaires revendiquaient leur sécurité et leur autonomie ta…
The French Bureaucracy and its Students
Future revolutions will doubtless be directed against the admin- JL istration and not against the political system.” Thus states one writer in the opening sentence of his book on l'Administration au pouvoir. There is little doubt that the institution in France that today bears the brunt of attacks coming from the entire range of the political, economic, and social spectrum, is the French administration—the state bureaucracy that, since the early …
Sur les limites de la mentalité bureaucratique
Analyser l'organisation bureaucratique comme une unité spécifique, par rapport à quoi s'expliquent les comportements de ses membres ; chercher à interpréter les représentations et les attitudes des fonctionnaires par référence à leurs origines sociales et au milieu de socialisation qui les forme, ce sont là deux voies bien connues. Peut-être conduisent-elles à trop de schématisme et de même que 1'ouvrier devenant contremaître modifie certains de …
L'administrateur et le député en France
L'administrateur et le député en France, par Ezra N. Suleiman La distance qui sépare les députés des fonctionnaires est grande. Elle repose sur des facteurs politiques et historiques plutôt que strictement sociaux. Toute analyse des rapports entre politiciens et fonctionnaires doit tenir compte de la lutte âpre qui a eu lieu entre ces deux groupes sous la Troisième République où les fonctionnaires revendiquaient leur sécurité et leur autonomie ta…
Politics, Power and Bureaucracy in France
Politics, Power, and Bureaucracy in France
Ou va l'Administration Francaise
The Myth of Technical Expertise
No country has been more admired (or criticized) than France for the manner in which it trains specialists and technicians destined to occupy the highest posts in the public and private sectors. It is the country where, as David Granick noted some years ago, the technocrat has the strongest position, where he in fact reigns supreme.1 The grandes c that is, as part of the elite's strategy to preserve its dominant position.2 If the leaders of Franc…
Self-Image, Legitimacy and the Stability of Elites
Why do some elites endure whereas other die? This is a question to which many historians and social theorists have addressed themselves in trying to explain the severe conflicts that have plagued particular societies. It is, of course, a truism that certain societies are more prone to conflicts and to instability than others. But even within such societies there often lies, beneath the all too evident turbulence, a considerable stability of certa…
Les hauts fonctionnaires et la politique
Higher education in France
1978). Higher education in France: A two‐track system. West European Politics: Vol. 1, Conflict and Consensus in France, pp. 97-114
State Structures and Clientelism
The autonomy of a state is thought to depend on the state's structures. This widely accepted view of the policy-making process has given rise to an uncontested assertion: states that possess centralized administrative structures are better able than decentralized states to formulate and implement policies independently of societal pressures.Is a decentralized state more permeable than a centralized one? We seek to answer this question by treating…
Tu seras president, mon fils. Anatomie des grandes ecoles et malformations des elites
Private Power and Centralization in France
By examining the relationship between the notaires, members of a significant French legal profession with deep roots in French history, and the state, Ezra Suleiman demonstrates that clientelism exists and may be more dangerous in a centralized state than in a decentralized one.Originally published in 1988.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the disting…
L’État a-t-il un avenir dans une société qui se méfie de lui
Does State Have a Future in a Society Which Holds It Suspect ? In ‘undoing’ State, the American nation has deprived the central government of the power to act. The incapacity of the federal authorities to resolve problems has resulted in substantial reactions of rejection of the political System. This implies avoiding, in France and elsewhere, the decline of the community spirit
Unmitigated Gaul
Dismantling Democratic States
Reforming the Commission
The article uses evidence from an original survey of 200 top Commission officials to highlight the schizophrenic nature of the Kinnock reforms. It shows that the push toward the ‘modernization’ of the Commission has been accompanied by a trend towards ‘bureaucratization’. The findings of the survey challenge the dominant view that the reform project was largely a move toward the institutional paradigm set by new public management (NPM). Based on …
Supranationalism in a Transnational Bureaucracy
While a significant body of scholarly work suggests that we can best understand the policy output of international bureaucracies by focusing on the preferences of their political masters, this article joins those looking 'inside' such bureaucracies to comprehend their behaviour. Using an original data set from nearly 200 interviewees, the article examines the policy preferences of top bureaucrats of the European Commission. It shows that top Comm…
The European Commission and Bureaucratic Autonomy
This book examines the struggle of the European Union bureaucracy to maintain its autonomy in an increasingly complex institutional setting and adverse political environment. Using an original survey of nearly two hundred top European Commission officials, it shows that the Commission is a coherent organization that shares a common culture of supranationalism. The European Union's multicephalous structure of political authority limits the capacit…
Elites in French Society
The Political Economy of Public Sector Reform and Privatization
Political science (21 works) · Law (13 works) · Politics (12 works) · Law (9 works) · Political economy (9 works) · Social Sciences and Governance (8 works) · Economics (7 works) · Public Administration (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Bureaucracy (6 works)