Cover -- Title page -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1. Public Management of Society -- 1.2. Alternative notions (public administration, state, government, politics, governance) -- 1.3. Plan of this research project -- 1.4. Summary -- 2. France, Unique Laboratory for Public Management of Society -- 2.1. French experiences during many centuries -- 2.2. Before the French Revolution -- 2.3. From French Revolution to Bonaparte -- 2.4. From Napoleon Bonaparte to Emperor Napoleon III -- 2.5. From Third Republic to Second World War -- 2.6. From Liberation to the start of the 21st century -- 3. The Fifth Republic survived the 20th Century -- 3.1. De Gaulle, the first president of the Fifth Republic -- 3.2. The Constitution of 1958 and the Fifth Republic -- 3.3. The Gaullist philosophy of Public Management of Society -- 3.4. Public authorities and organisations -- 4. Justice, Police and Penal System -- 4.1. Specific French principles of jurisdiction -- 4.2. Since 1958 judiciary authority instead of judiciary power -- 4.3. From "Police" as public affairs to Police properly -- 4.4. Some features of the French police model -- 4.5. Juridical regime of the French police -- 4.6. Police as qualified public service -- 4.7. Prison system. Structural crisis in the penitentiary system -- 4.8. Reforming justice and jurisdiction -- 5. From Socio-economic Steering to Cultural Engineering -- 5.1. French public management of the economy -- 5.2. Managing reconstruction of devastated France since 1945 -- 5.3. Construction of the Fifth Republic: modernisation -- 5.4. Original French planning, "planification à la française" -- 5.5. From centralist interventionism to sophisticated public management of society -- 5.6. Some specific public policies -- 5.7. Social security -- 5.8. Health care -- 5.9. Environmental policies.

5.10. Educational and cultural policies -- 5.11. Cultural engineering and "Francophonie" -- 5.12. Concluding remarks -- 6. Politics and Public Management of Society -- 6.1. The two births of French political science -- 6.2. French institutionalist paradigm. Emergence of empirical social science -- 6.3. The second birth of French political science -- 6.4. German influences, Marxism and Communism -- 6.5. From State to Public Management of Society -- 6.6. Political parties and politicians, trying to kidnap public authority -- 6.7. Party-politics in the first half of the 20th century -- 6.8. Party-politics as a kind of "power-capitalism" -- 6.9. Specifics of the French political system -- 6.10. Socialist and other leftist movements -- 6.11. Conservative, rightist movements and leftist reactions -- 6.12. Political life after Liberation -- 6.13. The Fourth Republic (1946-1958) -- 6.14. From "Gaullist Republic" to post-De Gaulle Fifth Republic -- 6.15. "Double Septennat-Mitterrand" (1981-1995) -- Chirac Era (1995-2002 -- 2002-2007) -- 7. International Relations: Military Management, Peace Management and Diplomacy -- 7.1. Military management and peace management -- 7.2. Nuclear weapon heart of French strategy for military independence -- 7.3. Secret services -- 7.4. International relations and diplomacy -- 8. Public Management of Society in the European Union, in the Neo-European Age -- 8.1. A short history of European integration -- 8.2. Social and economic conditions of a Common Market -- 8.3. French politicking as a structural phenomenon -- 8.4. Treaty of Maastricht: European Union -- 8.5. Juridical institutionalising from Rome (1957) to Amsterdam (1997) -- 8.6. Institutionalising a new architecture of decision-making -- 8.7. Treaty of Amsterdam (1997) -- 8.8. Convergence between "Rule of Law" and "État de droit" in the European Union.

8.9. Beyond the Treaty of Amsterdam. Towards a European Constitution -- 9. Public Management of Society in Co-disciplinary Perspective -- 9.1. Cultural specificity of French Public Management of Society -- 9.2. Construction of social reality, (new) institutionalism and French institutionalists -- 9.3. Public Management of Society beyond the modernism/postmodernism debate -- 9.4. From governance to professional Public Management of Society -- 9.5. Working-hypotheses for a co-disciplinary focus on public management of society -- 10. Rule of Law, Idea of Public Authority and Cultural Intelligence -- 10.1. From the vicious circle of vengeance to Roman law -- 10.2. Rule of law in gestation -- 10.3. French Revolution, impact of revolutions in Great-Britain and Northern America -- 10.4. Institutional outburst of the French Revolution -- 10.5. Confrontation of French doctrine with German ideas -- 10.6. Important French theoreticians of law -- 10.7. Ongoing debate about the state -- 10.8. The principle of sovereignty -- 10.9. "All-is-politics" thesis. Institutionalising of the state (Burdeau) -- 10.10. "Zero-State" thesis (De Bodinat) -- 10.11. "Law-without-the-State" thesis (Cohen-Tanugi) -- 10.12. Cultural mindset base for constitutional government -- 10.13. Cultural mapping of public authority -- 10.14. Cultural intelligence necessary condition for adequate Public Management of Society -- Epilogue.