About
Philippe Bezes is a research director at the CNRS and a member of the Center for European Studies and Comparative Politics at Sciences Po (CEE). His research focuses on the historical sociology of the transformation of public bureaucracies in France and from a comparative perspective.
Latest publication
The Policies of Ministerial Reorganization in France (1980-2014)
Partisan Variability or the Ordinary Art of Governance?
- By Timothée Chabot,
- Philippe Bezes,
- Translated and edited by Cadenza Academic Translations ,
- Translator: Claire Ivins,
- Editor: Caroline Leonard ,
- Senior editor: Mark Mellor
In Revue française de science politique (2024/1 Nº74)
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The new bureaucratic phenomenon performance-based management between. Bureaucratization, market and politics
In Revue française de science politique (2020/1 Vol. 70)
Reform trajectories. How to understand the process of institutional change
- By Philippe Bezes
- and Bruno Palier
In Revue française de science politique (2018/6 Vol. 68)
The Politics of Organization. The New Divisions of Labor in State Bureaucracies
- By Philippe Bezes
- and Patrick Le Lidec
In Revue française de science politique (2016/3 Vol. 66)
The State, Experts, and Neo-managerial Knowledge
Producers and Distributors of New Public Management in France since the 1970s
In Actes de la recherche en sciences sociales (2012/3 No 193)
State, Administration, and Public Policies: Dangerous Disconnections
France under the Scrutiny of North American Social Sciences
- By Philippe Bezes
- and Frédéric Pierru
In Gouvernement et action publique (2012/2 Vol. 1)
Introduction. For a sociology of rationalization: From Max Weber to contemporary research
- By Philippe Bezes,
- Sebastian Billows,
- Patrice Duran
- et al.
In L’Année sociologique (2021/1 Vol. 71)
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The Policies of Ministerial Reorganization in France (1980-2014)
Partisan Variability or the Ordinary Art of Governance?
- By Timothée Chabot,
- Philippe Bezes,
- Translated and edited by Cadenza Academic Translations ,
- et al.
In Revue française de science politique (2024/1 Nº74)
The managerial transversalization of the state. Varieties of management structures within the French public administration (1980-2014)
In Gouvernement et action publique (2023/1 VOL. 12)
Introduction. For a sociology of rationalization: From Max Weber to contemporary research
- By Philippe Bezes,
- Sebastian Billows,
- Patrice Duran
- et al.
In L’Année sociologique (2021/1 Vol. 71)
The new bureaucratic phenomenon performance-based management between. Bureaucratization, market and politics
In Revue française de science politique (2020/1 Vol. 70)
New Public Management et professions dans l’État : au-delà des oppositions, quelles recompositions ?
Process tracing: From method to usage
- By Philippe Bezes,
- Bruno Palier
- and Yves Surel
In Revue française de science politique (2018/6 Vol. 68)
Reform trajectories. How to understand the process of institutional change
- By Philippe Bezes
- and Bruno Palier
In Revue française de science politique (2018/6 Vol. 68)
The Politics of Organization. The New Divisions of Labor in State Bureaucracies
- By Philippe Bezes
- and Patrick Le Lidec
In Revue française de science politique (2016/3 Vol. 66)
The Politics of Merger
The New Frontiers of the Territorial State
- By Philippe Bezes
- and Patrick Le Lidec
In Revue française de science politique (2016/3 Vol. 66)
State, Administration, and Public Policies: Dangerous Disconnections
France under the Scrutiny of North American Social Sciences
- By Philippe Bezes
- and Frédéric Pierru
In Gouvernement et action publique (2012/2 Vol. 1)
The State, Experts, and Neo-managerial Knowledge
Producers and Distributors of New Public Management in France since the 1970s
In Actes de la recherche en sciences sociales (2012/3 No 193)
Classifying and judging political transgressions
The contribution of a focus group approach and employing quantitative methods to analyze qualitative data
- By Jean-Michel Lecrique,
- Pierre Lascoumes,
- Philippe Bezes,
- et al.
In Revue française de science politique (2011/3 Vol. 61)
Cross-Fertilization of the French Territorial Model: The French General Review of Public Policies (RGPP) Program Review and the Reorganizations of the State at the Territorial Level
- By Philippe Bezes
- and Patrick Le Lidec
In Revue française d’administration publique (2010/4 No 136)
The Morphology of the General Review of Public Policies: A Historical and Comparative Overview
In Revue française d’administration publique (2010/4 No 136)
Political Rationalities in State Reform: The Case of the Fourth Republic
In Revue d’histoire moderne et contemporaine (2009/5 No 56-4bis)
Judging Politics: Moral Principles, Norms of Action, and Legality
Moral Principles, Principles of Action, and Legal Register
- By Pierre Lascoumes
- and Philippe Bezes
In L’Année sociologique (2009/1 Vol. 59)
Reforming the State: Change and Continuity: An Interview with Philippe Bezes
In Esprit (2008/12 December)
Constructing Weberian Bureaucracies in the Age of New Public Management?
In Critique internationale (2007/2 No 35)
Publicizing and Politicizing Administrative Issues: Genealogy of the Reform of the Neoliberal State in the 1970s
In Revue française d’administration publique (2006/4 No 120)
Introduction
A History of Government Reform
In Revue française d’administration publique (2006/4 No 120)
Perceiving and Judging “Political Corruption”: What Surveys about Perceptions of Public Misconduct Can Tell Us
Issues and Uses of Surveys as Reflections of Violations of Public Probity
- By Philippe Bezes
- and Pierre Lascoumes
In Revue française de science politique (2005/5 Vol. 55)
The Rebirth of Bureaucratic Control
The Impact of New Public Management
In Informations sociales (2005/6 No 126)
