Denis Saint‐martin
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 4160369 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Denis Saint‐martin |
| PRENOMES | Denis |
| SOBRENOME | Saint‐martin |
| ASSINATURA | SAINT MARTIN D |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Université de Montréal |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 26 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 279 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 26 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1998 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2020 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Are They All the Same? The Distribution of Personal Wealth Between the Left and the Right in Latin America
Conventional wisdom indicates that politicians in Latin America are all wealthy. However, the literature on both political elites and social origins of political parties indicates that we should expect differences in the capital accumulation of politicians depending on their ideological position. This study seeks to explore that question using financial disclosure forms made available in six Latin American countries: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, C…
Systemic Corruption in an Advanced Welfare State
The Quiet Revolution in the 1960s propelled the province of Quebec onto the path of greater social justice and better government. But as the evidence exposed at the Charbonneau inquiry makes clear, this did not make systemic corruption disappear from the construction sector. Rather, corrupt actors and networks adjusted to new institutions and the incentive structure they provided. The patterns of corruption emerging from the Charbonneau inquiry b…
Gradual Institutional Change in Congressional Ethics
Ethics reform in Congress is expected to display extensive instability and “cycling.” Members hold conflicting views about ethics, and parties have weak capacities to order their preferences. The trend is for legislators to resist change until a scandal erupts and forces them to act. As a result, ethics reforms in Congress have typically developed through a layering of short-term and piecemeal institutional responses to the scandal of the moment.…
Governing without a majority. What consequences in Westminster systems
Half a century of “muddling”
Half a century after the publication of Lindblom's seminal article “The Science of Muddling Through”, we revisit the heritage of incrementalism in this special issue, analyzing its legacy in public policy and public administration. The articles discuss the extent to which recent theoretical developments have transformed the original idea, reinforced it, or possibly rendered it obsolete. In this introductory article, we provide a short overview ov…
Rationalism and public policy
This article takes up the distinction between incremental analysis and incremental politics as elaborated by Lindblom in his 1979 article. We argue that while rationalism as a mode of analysis has lost much of its prominence, rationalism as symbolic politics is still very much alive and might even be more present today than it was back when Lindblom wrote his famous 1959 article. The recent shift to new modes of governance whereby elected officia…
From governing society to governing itself
La régulation de l'éthique parlementaire
Cet article explore la problématique de l’autonomisation et de la différenciation de l’expertise dans la régulation de l’éthique parlementaire aux États-Unis, au Canada et en Grande-Bretagne. Les organismes de régulation de l’éthique parlementaire opèrent dans un environnement hautement partisan, institutionnellement manipulable, et mobilisent une expertise contestée par les élus, ceux-ci s’estimant être les seuls à disposer de l’expérience prati…
From the Welfare State to the Social Investment State
Le consulting et l'Etat
This article examines the growing importance of management consultants in state reform from the point of view of supply and demand. Although they vary from one country to another, the size of the state, the openness of the consulting system in matters of policy-making, and the reforms inspired by New Public Management, have all contributed to the increase in demand for consulting services within public administration. On the supply side, the auth…
Building blocks for a new social architecture
English Social policy communities now often focus on ‘new social risks’. Despite a clear preference for controlling state spending, they also consider that these risks call for ‘social investments’. Concentration on investments, activation and the future is considered an optimal anchor for redesigning their welfare systems. Convergence around three ideas prompt us to speak of a shift towards a LEGOTM paradigm: learning over the life-course; a fut…
Social Learning, Third Way Politics, and Welfare State Redesign
Agency, actors and change in a child-focused future
This article calls into question the assumptions of leading welfare state theorists who rely on path dependency approaches and ‘permanent austerity’ theses to inform their analyses. In contrast, drawing on public policy approaches that acknowledge paradigm shifts, and feminist state and social movement theorisation, we examine the state/civil society interrelations that have helped to bring about changes in state forms in Canada and Britain. We a…
Between Regulation, Promotion and Consumption
It is very important to decide when to stop using the consultants, because you very easily get addicted, you very easily get used to these well trained, hard working people running around.1 During
Building the New Managerialist State
In the 1980s and 1990s the governance witnessed a shift from the Weberian model of bureaucracy to the 'new managerialism' — a term used to describe the group of ideas imported from business and mainly brought into government by management consultants. Over the past fifteen years, the British, French, and Canadian governments have spent growing sums of money on consulting services, thus, policy makers inside the state have increasingly been expose…
Managerialist advocate or “control freak”? The Janus‐faced Office of the Auditor General
This article highlights the contradictions in the role of the Office of Auditor General (OAG) and identifies the sources as well as the consequences of the office's Janus‐like character as both a managerialist advocate and “control freak.” This character, it is argued, is shaped by institutional factors and the knowledge‐basis on which the office relies to fulfil its mission. Three causes of “institutional schizophrenia” are identified: the OAG'S…
Apprentissage social et changement institutionnel
De plus en plus, les décideurs politiques reconnaissent l’importance des « premières années de la vie » comme un espace d’intervention méritant davantage d’attention et dans lequel l’État devrait faire des « investissements sociaux » plus importants afin de renforcer le capital humain des futurs travailleurs. Comment la thèse de l’austérité permanente mettant l’accent sur les processus de « dépendance au sentier » dans la réforme de l’État-provid…
Should the Federal Ethics Counsellor Become an Independent Officer of Parliament
This paper tests the validity of arguments in favour, and against, the establishment of an independent ethics "watchdog" in Ottawa by comparing the experience of other jurisdictions with the regulation of ethics in politics. This suggests that neither the independent prosecutor model, nor the Auditor General, provide accurate examples to describe attempts at designing institutions for enforcing ethics in Westminster democracies. The Office of the…
L'affaire Groupaction
Sommaire: l affaire Groupaction met en relief deux formes de politisation de la Fonction publique fédérale: l'une partisane, l'autre structurelle. La politisation de type partisan et I'intégration de personnel politique au sein de la Fonction publique via l'article 39 de la Loi sur la Fonction publique sont devenues des phénoménes plus répandus au cours des demiéres années. La notion de politisation structurelle sou‐ligne comment la Fonction publ…
New Routes to Social Cohesion? Citizenship and the Social Investment State
Jane Jenson, Denis Saint-Martin, New Routes to Social Cohesion? Citizenship and the Social Investment State, The Canadian Journal of Sociology / Cahiers canadiens de sociologie, Vol. 28, No. 1, Special Issue on Social Cohesion in Canada (Winter, 2003), pp. 77-99
When industrial policy shapes public sector reform
Approaches seeking to explain the development of TQM ideas in government are very much ‘business‐centric’. The goal of this article is to show that in reforming the public sector, policy‐makers did not simply follow the lead of the private sector because ‐ in the case of TQM ‐ the private sector was itself, to some extent at least, led by government. In the mid‐1980s, Britain and France launched nationwide ‘quality initiatives’ which provided mon…
Énarchie vs ‘consultocratie’
Sous l’influence de la Nouvelle Gestion Publique, les gouvernants ont accru depuis les vingt dernières années leur recours aux services des consultants en management du secteur privé. Certains observateurs ont même parlé de ‘consultocratie’ pour décrire le nouveau pouvoir des consultants dans la gestion publique. Analysant le cas de la réforme de l’État en France depuis les années 1980, cet article montre que l’existence d’institutions comme l’Éc…
Les consultants et la réforme managérialiste de l'État en France et en Grande-Bretagne
With the rise of the new managerialism in the 1980s, public policy makers have increased their use of management consulting knowledge in reforming their bureaucracies. To describe this situation, some have coined the term « consultocracy,» assuming that the emergence of managerialism created a growing demand for business management expertise in government circles that has allowed consultants to penetrate the state and become powerful actors in th…
Management Consultants, the State, and the Politics of Administrative Reform in Britain and Canada
Recent contributions to the literature on bureaucratic reform suggest that profit-seeking consultants from the private sector are one of the main driving forces behind the global spread of New Public Management (NPM) ideas. But contrary to what is expected, the growing role of consultants in the construction of the “post-bureaucratic state” in Britain and Canada did not lead to policy uniformity or convergence in the acceptance of NPM ideas. To e…
Les partis politiques en Europe de l'OuestGuy Hermet, Julian Thomas Hottinger et Daniel Louis Seiler, sous la direction de Paris
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Building blocks for a new social architecture
English Social policy communities now often focus on ‘new social risks’. Despite a clear preference for controlling state spending, they also consider that these risks call for ‘social investments’. Concentration on investments, activation and the future is considered an optimal anchor for redesigning their welfare systems. Convergence around three ideas prompt us to speak of a shift towards a LEGOTM paradigm: learning over the life-course; a fut…
The New Managerialism and the Policy Influence of Consultants in Government
Following the rise of the New Public Management (NPM) in the 1980s, policymakers increasingly mobilized management consultants from the private sector in the course of reforming their bureaucracies. To describe this situation some coined the term “consultocracy,” assuming that the emergence of the NPM created a growing demand for business management expertise in government circles that allowed consultants to penetrate the state and become powerfu…
New Routes to Social Cohesion? Citizenship and the Social Investment State
Jane Jenson, Denis Saint-Martin, New Routes to Social Cohesion? Citizenship and the Social Investment State, The Canadian Journal of Sociology / Cahiers canadiens de sociologie, Vol. 28, No. 1, Special Issue on Social Cohesion in Canada (Winter, 2003), pp. 77-99
Agency, actors and change in a child-focused future
This article calls into question the assumptions of leading welfare state theorists who rely on path dependency approaches and ‘permanent austerity’ theses to inform their analyses. In contrast, drawing on public policy approaches that acknowledge paradigm shifts, and feminist state and social movement theorisation, we examine the state/civil society interrelations that have helped to bring about changes in state forms in Canada and Britain. We a…
Between Regulation, Promotion and Consumption
It is very important to decide when to stop using the consultants, because you very easily get addicted, you very easily get used to these well trained, hard working people running around.1 During
Management Consultants, the State, and the Politics of Administrative Reform in Britain and Canada
Recent contributions to the literature on bureaucratic reform suggest that profit-seeking consultants from the private sector are one of the main driving forces behind the global spread of New Public Management (NPM) ideas. But contrary to what is expected, the growing role of consultants in the construction of the “post-bureaucratic state” in Britain and Canada did not lead to policy uniformity or convergence in the acceptance of NPM ideas. To e…
Les consultants et la réforme managérialiste de l'État en France et en Grande-Bretagne
With the rise of the new managerialism in the 1980s, public policy makers have increased their use of management consulting knowledge in reforming their bureaucracies. To describe this situation, some have coined the term « consultocracy,» assuming that the emergence of managerialism created a growing demand for business management expertise in government circles that has allowed consultants to penetrate the state and become powerful actors in th…
Le consulting et l'Etat
This article examines the growing importance of management consultants in state reform from the point of view of supply and demand. Although they vary from one country to another, the size of the state, the openness of the consulting system in matters of policy-making, and the reforms inspired by New Public Management, have all contributed to the increase in demand for consulting services within public administration. On the supply side, the auth…
Half a century of “muddling”
Half a century after the publication of Lindblom's seminal article “The Science of Muddling Through”, we revisit the heritage of incrementalism in this special issue, analyzing its legacy in public policy and public administration. The articles discuss the extent to which recent theoretical developments have transformed the original idea, reinforced it, or possibly rendered it obsolete. In this introductory article, we provide a short overview ov…
Managerialist advocate or “control freak”? The Janus‐faced Office of the Auditor General
This article highlights the contradictions in the role of the Office of Auditor General (OAG) and identifies the sources as well as the consequences of the office's Janus‐like character as both a managerialist advocate and “control freak.” This character, it is argued, is shaped by institutional factors and the knowledge‐basis on which the office relies to fulfil its mission. Three causes of “institutional schizophrenia” are identified: the OAG'S…
Gradual Institutional Change in Congressional Ethics
Ethics reform in Congress is expected to display extensive instability and “cycling.” Members hold conflicting views about ethics, and parties have weak capacities to order their preferences. The trend is for legislators to resist change until a scandal erupts and forces them to act. As a result, ethics reforms in Congress have typically developed through a layering of short-term and piecemeal institutional responses to the scandal of the moment.…
La régulation de l'éthique parlementaire
Cet article explore la problématique de l’autonomisation et de la différenciation de l’expertise dans la régulation de l’éthique parlementaire aux États-Unis, au Canada et en Grande-Bretagne. Les organismes de régulation de l’éthique parlementaire opèrent dans un environnement hautement partisan, institutionnellement manipulable, et mobilisent une expertise contestée par les élus, ceux-ci s’estimant être les seuls à disposer de l’expérience prati…
Should the Federal Ethics Counsellor Become an Independent Officer of Parliament
This paper tests the validity of arguments in favour, and against, the establishment of an independent ethics "watchdog" in Ottawa by comparing the experience of other jurisdictions with the regulation of ethics in politics. This suggests that neither the independent prosecutor model, nor the Auditor General, provide accurate examples to describe attempts at designing institutions for enforcing ethics in Westminster democracies. The Office of the…
Governing without a majority. What consequences in Westminster systems
Rationalism and public policy
This article takes up the distinction between incremental analysis and incremental politics as elaborated by Lindblom in his 1979 article. We argue that while rationalism as a mode of analysis has lost much of its prominence, rationalism as symbolic politics is still very much alive and might even be more present today than it was back when Lindblom wrote his famous 1959 article. The recent shift to new modes of governance whereby elected officia…
L'affaire Groupaction
Sommaire: l affaire Groupaction met en relief deux formes de politisation de la Fonction publique fédérale: l'une partisane, l'autre structurelle. La politisation de type partisan et I'intégration de personnel politique au sein de la Fonction publique via l'article 39 de la Loi sur la Fonction publique sont devenues des phénoménes plus répandus au cours des demiéres années. La notion de politisation structurelle sou‐ligne comment la Fonction publ…
Énarchie vs ‘consultocratie’
Sous l’influence de la Nouvelle Gestion Publique, les gouvernants ont accru depuis les vingt dernières années leur recours aux services des consultants en management du secteur privé. Certains observateurs ont même parlé de ‘consultocratie’ pour décrire le nouveau pouvoir des consultants dans la gestion publique. Analysant le cas de la réforme de l’État en France depuis les années 1980, cet article montre que l’existence d’institutions comme l’Éc…
From governing society to governing itself
Management Consultants, the State, and the Politics of Administrative Reform in Britain and Canada
Recent contributions to the literature on bureaucratic reform suggest that profit-seeking consultants from the private sector are one of the main driving forces behind the global spread of New Public Management (NPM) ideas. But contrary to what is expected, the growing role of consultants in the construction of the “post-bureaucratic state” in Britain and Canada did not lead to policy uniformity or convergence in the acceptance of NPM ideas. To e…
Les partis politiques en Europe de l'OuestGuy Hermet, Julian Thomas Hottinger et Daniel Louis Seiler, sous la direction de Paris
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The New Managerialism and the Policy Influence of Consultants in Government
Following the rise of the New Public Management (NPM) in the 1980s, policymakers increasingly mobilized management consultants from the private sector in the course of reforming their bureaucracies. To describe this situation some coined the term “consultocracy,” assuming that the emergence of the NPM created a growing demand for business management expertise in government circles that allowed consultants to penetrate the state and become powerfu…
Les consultants et la réforme managérialiste de l'État en France et en Grande-Bretagne
With the rise of the new managerialism in the 1980s, public policy makers have increased their use of management consulting knowledge in reforming their bureaucracies. To describe this situation, some have coined the term « consultocracy,» assuming that the emergence of managerialism created a growing demand for business management expertise in government circles that has allowed consultants to penetrate the state and become powerful actors in th…
Énarchie vs ‘consultocratie’
Sous l’influence de la Nouvelle Gestion Publique, les gouvernants ont accru depuis les vingt dernières années leur recours aux services des consultants en management du secteur privé. Certains observateurs ont même parlé de ‘consultocratie’ pour décrire le nouveau pouvoir des consultants dans la gestion publique. Analysant le cas de la réforme de l’État en France depuis les années 1980, cet article montre que l’existence d’institutions comme l’Éc…
When industrial policy shapes public sector reform
Approaches seeking to explain the development of TQM ideas in government are very much ‘business‐centric’. The goal of this article is to show that in reforming the public sector, policy‐makers did not simply follow the lead of the private sector because ‐ in the case of TQM ‐ the private sector was itself, to some extent at least, led by government. In the mid‐1980s, Britain and France launched nationwide ‘quality initiatives’ which provided mon…
Apprentissage social et changement institutionnel
De plus en plus, les décideurs politiques reconnaissent l’importance des « premières années de la vie » comme un espace d’intervention méritant davantage d’attention et dans lequel l’État devrait faire des « investissements sociaux » plus importants afin de renforcer le capital humain des futurs travailleurs. Comment la thèse de l’austérité permanente mettant l’accent sur les processus de « dépendance au sentier » dans la réforme de l’État-provid…
Should the Federal Ethics Counsellor Become an Independent Officer of Parliament
This paper tests the validity of arguments in favour, and against, the establishment of an independent ethics "watchdog" in Ottawa by comparing the experience of other jurisdictions with the regulation of ethics in politics. This suggests that neither the independent prosecutor model, nor the Auditor General, provide accurate examples to describe attempts at designing institutions for enforcing ethics in Westminster democracies. The Office of the…
L'affaire Groupaction
Sommaire: l affaire Groupaction met en relief deux formes de politisation de la Fonction publique fédérale: l'une partisane, l'autre structurelle. La politisation de type partisan et I'intégration de personnel politique au sein de la Fonction publique via l'article 39 de la Loi sur la Fonction publique sont devenues des phénoménes plus répandus au cours des demiéres années. La notion de politisation structurelle sou‐ligne comment la Fonction publ…
New Routes to Social Cohesion? Citizenship and the Social Investment State
Jane Jenson, Denis Saint-Martin, New Routes to Social Cohesion? Citizenship and the Social Investment State, The Canadian Journal of Sociology / Cahiers canadiens de sociologie, Vol. 28, No. 1, Special Issue on Social Cohesion in Canada (Winter, 2003), pp. 77-99
Building the New Managerialist State
In the 1980s and 1990s the governance witnessed a shift from the Weberian model of bureaucracy to the 'new managerialism' — a term used to describe the group of ideas imported from business and mainly brought into government by management consultants. Over the past fifteen years, the British, French, and Canadian governments have spent growing sums of money on consulting services, thus, policy makers inside the state have increasingly been expose…
Managerialist advocate or “control freak”? The Janus‐faced Office of the Auditor General
This article highlights the contradictions in the role of the Office of Auditor General (OAG) and identifies the sources as well as the consequences of the office's Janus‐like character as both a managerialist advocate and “control freak.” This character, it is argued, is shaped by institutional factors and the knowledge‐basis on which the office relies to fulfil its mission. Three causes of “institutional schizophrenia” are identified: the OAG'S…
Social Learning, Third Way Politics, and Welfare State Redesign
Agency, actors and change in a child-focused future
This article calls into question the assumptions of leading welfare state theorists who rely on path dependency approaches and ‘permanent austerity’ theses to inform their analyses. In contrast, drawing on public policy approaches that acknowledge paradigm shifts, and feminist state and social movement theorisation, we examine the state/civil society interrelations that have helped to bring about changes in state forms in Canada and Britain. We a…
Between Regulation, Promotion and Consumption
It is very important to decide when to stop using the consultants, because you very easily get addicted, you very easily get used to these well trained, hard working people running around.1 During
Building blocks for a new social architecture
English Social policy communities now often focus on ‘new social risks’. Despite a clear preference for controlling state spending, they also consider that these risks call for ‘social investments’. Concentration on investments, activation and the future is considered an optimal anchor for redesigning their welfare systems. Convergence around three ideas prompt us to speak of a shift towards a LEGOTM paradigm: learning over the life-course; a fut…
From the Welfare State to the Social Investment State
Le consulting et l'Etat
This article examines the growing importance of management consultants in state reform from the point of view of supply and demand. Although they vary from one country to another, the size of the state, the openness of the consulting system in matters of policy-making, and the reforms inspired by New Public Management, have all contributed to the increase in demand for consulting services within public administration. On the supply side, the auth…
La régulation de l'éthique parlementaire
Cet article explore la problématique de l’autonomisation et de la différenciation de l’expertise dans la régulation de l’éthique parlementaire aux États-Unis, au Canada et en Grande-Bretagne. Les organismes de régulation de l’éthique parlementaire opèrent dans un environnement hautement partisan, institutionnellement manipulable, et mobilisent une expertise contestée par les élus, ceux-ci s’estimant être les seuls à disposer de l’expérience prati…
From governing society to governing itself
Governing without a majority. What consequences in Westminster systems
Half a century of “muddling”
Half a century after the publication of Lindblom's seminal article “The Science of Muddling Through”, we revisit the heritage of incrementalism in this special issue, analyzing its legacy in public policy and public administration. The articles discuss the extent to which recent theoretical developments have transformed the original idea, reinforced it, or possibly rendered it obsolete. In this introductory article, we provide a short overview ov…
Rationalism and public policy
This article takes up the distinction between incremental analysis and incremental politics as elaborated by Lindblom in his 1979 article. We argue that while rationalism as a mode of analysis has lost much of its prominence, rationalism as symbolic politics is still very much alive and might even be more present today than it was back when Lindblom wrote his famous 1959 article. The recent shift to new modes of governance whereby elected officia…
Gradual Institutional Change in Congressional Ethics
Ethics reform in Congress is expected to display extensive instability and “cycling.” Members hold conflicting views about ethics, and parties have weak capacities to order their preferences. The trend is for legislators to resist change until a scandal erupts and forces them to act. As a result, ethics reforms in Congress have typically developed through a layering of short-term and piecemeal institutional responses to the scandal of the moment.…
Systemic Corruption in an Advanced Welfare State
The Quiet Revolution in the 1960s propelled the province of Quebec onto the path of greater social justice and better government. But as the evidence exposed at the Charbonneau inquiry makes clear, this did not make systemic corruption disappear from the construction sector. Rather, corrupt actors and networks adjusted to new institutions and the incentive structure they provided. The patterns of corruption emerging from the Charbonneau inquiry b…
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