Review of Regionalization Process of France's Administrative System: An Institutionalization Issue (original) (raw)

2020, Contemporary Research in Economics and Social Sciences

The regionalization, that appears as a modern phenomenon, affects the 21th century public administration. Especially in terms of European nation-states. when the regionalization is implemented because of the local demands by the central administration, in the countries that have a centralized administration like France, this regionalization process would have been executed by the own will of the center. This paper aims to examine the sociological dynamics of the regionalization movement in France. In accordance with this, the regionalization in France is addressed under (the) three different topics from the functioning of the State with the regional governments, the relations between center and periphery and the articulation between the State and society regarding the political participation, democracy and decentralization. In addition, this paper pursues the historical data related to the regional formation, sociological and administrative balance among the elected and the elites, and then the statistics created by the data obtained from French interior ministry. Therewith, to be more contented at expressing the French regionalization movement that states a multidimensional process, the comparison with other European States and several examples are presented

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