La territorialisation de l'action publique à l'épreuve des faits en République démocratique du Congo

Jethro Kombo Yetilo () and Jonathan Mbuangi Saben ()
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Jethro Kombo Yetilo: ENAP - École nationale d'administration publique (Québec, Province)
Jonathan Mbuangi Saben: UNIKIN - University of Kinshasa

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Abstract: The Congolese constitution of 2006 has given subnational institutions –especially provinces– broader powers in the development and implementation of sectoral public policies. In addition, to bring the population closer to decision-making centres, this territorialisation of public action has gone with territorial engineering, increasing the number of provinces from 11 to 26. But more than a decade after the promulgation of this constitution –and more than two years after the installation of new provinces– it is clear that these entities enjoy only a very weak legitimacy. Paradoxically, we are witnessing the reproduction of Congolese state power, thus calling into question the very process of territorialisation of public policies and its corollary decentralisation.

Keywords: Territorialisation; Territorial division; Transfer of competences; Decentralisation; Public action; découpage territorial; transfert de compétences; action publique; territorialisation; décentralisation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018-03-22
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Published in CIST2018 - Représenter les territoires / Representing territories, Collège international des sciences territoriales (CIST), Mar 2018, Rouen, France. pp.66-71

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