La modernización del sistema educativo en Francia: la nueva gestión pública entre la afirmación del Estado y la gobernanza descentralizada

ABSTRACT: The history of the French public administration in education is strongly linked to Napoleon's legacy and the birth of the Third Republic. The importance of legalism has had an impact on the action of policy-makers, inspectors and principals at different hierarchical levels, and it places them in positions of command, authority and subordination. Because of the weight of public services in France, and the weight of public servants, it is mainly the State which is transformed with some effects on the sector of education. This bureaucratic order is today challenged by the implementation...