Patrick Le Galès, CNRS research director at the Center for European Studies and Comparative Politics (CEE) at Sciences Po and professor at the urban school and the research school at Sciences Po, was awarded Tuesday, December 3 the Grand Prix de l’Esprit Grand Paris, awarded by the Acteurs du Grand Paris in partnership with Le journal du Grand Paris.
A sentence, taken from the collective work: The Paris Metropolis, an organized anarchy
earned Patrick Le Galès, CNRS research director at the Center for European Studies and Comparative Politics (CEE) at Sciences Po, to receive the Grand Paris de l'esprit Grand Paris on Tuesday, December 3, awarded by the Acteurs du Grand Paris in partnership with Le journal du Grand Paris: “Metropolitan governance can be understood as an “organized anarchy”, where loosely coupled organizations coexist, often vague and potentially contradictory objectives, sets of solutions and problems that are poorly articulated between them,” the academic writes in this work. The authors cite “vicious neo-bureaucratic circles”, “organizational saturation”, the multiplication of organizations being explained “by the incessant political work aimed at creating/reforming organizations to resolve the problems themselves generated by the multiplication of organizations.”
Patrick Le Galès and Richard Curnier. © Jgp
Thomas Hantz, president of Acteurs du Grand Paris, surrounded by members of the association's office. © Jgp
During this event attended by all of Paris from the city's fabric, as well as numerous elected officials and various metropolitan operators, Thomas Hantz, president of Acteurs du Grand Paris, paid tribute to the members of the association's office for their engagement and interviewed the journalist Michel Denisot, star guest of the club's winter evening, which took place under the golden paneling of the Le Marois hotel.
· The Parisian metropolis, an organized anarchy, under the direction of Francesca Artioli and Patrick Le Galès, SciencesPo Les presses, 325p. 27 euros. Francesca Artioli is a lecturer at the Paris School of Urban Planning and a researcher at Lab'Urba (Paris-Est Créteil University); Patrick Le Galès is CNRS research director at the Center for European Studies and Comparative Politics (CEE) at Sciences Po and professor at the Urban School and the Research School at Sciences Po.
