The Digital Republic: Re-newing the French state via egovernment

Fabienne Greffet (1, 2)

1 PACTE - Pacte, Laboratoire de sciences sociales
2 IRENEE - Institut de Recherches sur l'Evolution de la Nation Et de l'Etat

This chapter analyses the devlopment of e-government in France in the years 2000. It shows that the remodelling of the French state can to some extent be compared with the transition between the Fourth and the Fifth Republic, in a sense that it is sustained by discourses presenting e-gov as a big progress and a necessary step towards modernity. It also shows that it is a consumerist and professional conception of e-government that is promoted in France, following an economic rationalist model, where citizens are, above all, seen as customers.

Mots clés: gouvernement électronique; administration électronique; démocratie électronique

Mots clés: e-government; e-administration; France; e-democracy

Domaines: Science politique; Sciences de l'information et de la communication

Fabienne Greffet. The Digital Republic: Re-newing the French state via egovernment. Paul G. Nixon and Vassiliki N. Koutrakou. Re-booting the State via e-government in Europe, Routledge, pp.75-89, 2007, Routledge Advances in European Politics. ⟨halshs-00151310⟩