Cornell University Press is
publishing a book on the revolving door between public service and private
enrichment in 21st century France.
ABOUT THE BOOK
The Neoliberal Republic traces
the corrosive effects that the revolving door between public service and
private enrichment has on the French state and its ability to govern and
regulate the private sector. Casting a piercing light on this circulation of
influence among corporate lawyers and others in the French power elite, Antoine
Vauchez and Pierre France analyze how this dynamic, a feature of all Western
democracies, has developed in concert with the rise of neoliberalism over the
past three decades.
Based on interviews with dozens
of public officials in France and a unique biographical database of more than
200 civil servants-turned corporate lawyers, The Neoliberal Republic explores
how the always-blurred boundary between public service and private interests
has now been critically compromised, enabling the transformation of the
regulatory state into either an ineffectual bystander or an active collaborator
in the privatization of public welfare. The cumulative effect of these
developments, the authors reveal, undermines democratic citizenship and the
capacity to imagine the public good.
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Antoine Vauchez is a CNRS
Research Professor at Université Paris 1-Sorbonne and a Permanent Visiting
Professor at iCourts Research Centre at the University of Copenhagen. He is
co-author of How to Democratize Europe.
Pierre France is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Political Science at
Université Paris 1-Sorbonne.
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