 The Reform of Local Democracy in France between 2008-2014Claudia Gilia ()
Jurnalul de Studii Juridice, 2012, vol. 1-2, issue 4, 49-64 Abstract: The reform of the French territorial collectivities, which will take place between 2008-2014, is a structural reform, concerning the administrative organization of France, initiated by the President Nicolas Sarkozy, including a cluster of rules that will regulate the whole French administrative structure. Within a state grounded on centralism as far as the administrative organisation is concerned, the reform that started in 2008 brings in major changes in terms of administrative-territorial organisation in metropolitan France and overseas territories as well. The first part of our study aims to analyse the legislative changes regarding the reorganisation of territorial collectivities. The second part aims to identify and describe how the French legislator brought under regulation the participation instruments which allow the French citizens to actively get involved in the life of their society, except the periodic elections. Besides the national referendum, the legislator thus established the local referendum, the petitionary matters, the local council, the consultative committees etc. Keywords: reorganisation; French territorial collectivities; local democracy; participatory democracy; citizen. (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:lum:rev4rl:v:1-2:y:2012:i:4:p:49-64 Access Statistics for this article More articles in Jurnalul de Studii Juridice from Editura Lumen, Department of Economics on Behalf of Petre Andrei University Iasi |
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