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English translation: decentralisation of responsibility

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French term or phrase:	décentralisation de la responsabilité
English translation:	decentralisation of responsibility
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05:14 May 13, 2009

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French term or phrase: décentralisation de la responsabilité

D. VERS UNE DÉCENTRALISATION DE LA RESPONSABILITÉ
La « République des proximités » évoquée par le Premier ministre en présentant devant le Sénat le projet de loi constitutionnelle relatif à l'organisation décentralisée de la République ne saurait se limiter à une simple décentralisation de guichet. Un transfert de compétence doit aller de pair avec un transfert de responsabilité.

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decentralisation of responsibility

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La méthode de pilotage des établissements s’est modifiée de
façon importante au cours des dernières années. Le changement
le plus significatif a été la décentralisation de la responsabilité de
la gestion des établissements du pouvoir central vers les
collectivité locales.
The method of steering the schools has changed dramatically
during recent years. Most important was the decentralisation of
responsibility from the central government to the municipal level.
http://cisad.adc.education.fr/reva/pdf/lire5.pdf

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Michael H G
Mauritius
Local time: 19:46

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decentralisation of responsibility

Michael H G

5 +1

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Nikki Scott-Despaigne

administrative decentralization

Alexander Totz

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DÉCENTRALISATION DE LA RESPONSABILITÉ

decentralisation of responsibility

Michael H G
Mauritius
Local time: 19:46
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French
PRO pts in category: 4

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Asker: Note sure about this Michael as it's from a FR site...looks like a calque to me

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peer agreement (net): +1

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Explanation:
http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/section?content=a791805883&...
Functionalism and representationalism in contemporary urban agendas: a Scottish perspective on city-region branding
Authors: Greg Lloyd a; Deborah Peel a
Affiliation: a Department of Civic Design, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
DOI: 10.1080/17535060701795348
Publication Frequency: 3 issues per year
Published in: Urban Research & Practice, Volume 1, Issue 1 March 2008 , pages 36 - 53
Abstract
The turn to city-regionalism in Scotland is a consequence of the policy and political assertion of the importance of cities in the new territorial economy of a devolved state. Moreover, the developmental rationale for city-regions rests on the stronger functional realignment of economic growth, investment, housing and population patterns, and the interaction of diverse flows to realise agglomeration efficiencies. In planning and governance terms, the argument for city-regions involves a layered spatial intervention so as to secure intended institutional efficiencies and sustainable development. In practice, the city-region discourse is dominated by functional linkages and relations in factor markets. This paper questions whether this functional perspective is sufficient in socially reconstructing the city-region identity. Adopting the concepts of functionalism and representationalism from the place-branding literature, this paper considers what may be learned from a communicative logic that is relatively more sensitive to issues of interpretation and identity.
Keywords: place-branding; city-regions; Scotland; communication; social construction
[…]
Tracing the social construction of the city-region in Scotland

The particular institutional economy associated with political devolution in Scotland is all-important in understanding the contemporary interest in city-regions. By the mid 1990s, the UK was characterised as being relatively overcentralised in governmental and governance terms (Hutton 1995), with a range of attendant regional economic and political efficiency and distributional implications (Amin et al. 2003). Changing political and electoral arguments and circumstances, and the election of a Labour administration in 1997, however, enabled the introduction of devolved governance in the UK (McNaughton 1998). In the context of Scotland, this was, in part, a response to a long-established political social movement for broader self-government (McKewen 2003). It also reflects a wider process of decentralisation of responsibility to subnational institutional actors in order to build on perceived indigenous strengths (HM Treasury 2006). Devolution has nonetheless taken an asymmetrical form in the UK (Goodwin et al. 2005) and, following the Scotland Act 1998, resulted in the establishment of the Scottish Parliament and the Scottish Executive (renamed the Scottish Government in 2007).

http://www.ucl.ac.uk/constitution-unit/files/research/devolu...

10 Conclusion
The publication of CSR07 during the most recent monitoring period added the final piece
to a jigsaw which now gives a relatively complete sketch of the future shape of subnational
policy and governance in England. Seen in conjunction with a plethora of
statements that have appeared in Labour’s third term contained in the green paper on
the Governance of Britain and the Local Government White Paper; in the Review of Sub-
National Economic Development and Regeneration; and in major policy reviews
completed by Lyons (on local government finance), Eddington (on transport), Leitch (on
skills) and Barker (on housing and planning) it completes the in-principle modification of
a landscape that now appears very different to what might have been expected four
years ago, when the Government’s plans to enable the creation of elected regional
assemblies were still nominally on track.
Within this new landscape, there is still some commitment to the regionalisation of public
policy and to improving the political accountability of regional agencies, which the
Modernisation Select Committee is looking into. Devolution to new elected bodies,
however, is firmly off the agenda and there is no longer any pretence that English subnational
governance is or should be moving along the trail already blazed, in different
ways, by the UK’s non-English nations. Instead, there is a limited amount of
decentralisation of responsibility, within centrally-determined budget parameters, to
regional agencies but also a requirement that RDAs and Government Offices will
become more strategic, leaving the bulk of decision-making and delivery to local
authorities.

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My understanding of the extract is that it is that the prime minister’s conception of a decentralized republic involves more than decentralizing the structures of state machinery. Transferring skills is of no use unless there is a transfer of responsibility. For this reason, I think it is important to retain the emphasis from the original title, the accent being on restructuring the responsibility. Cosmetics are out the window.

Nikki Scott-Despaigne
Local time: 17:46
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 8

10 hrs confidence:

administrative decentralization

Explanation:
I think this another viable option. Résponsabilité seems a bit too close to responsable, eg that it's more about the functionaries, bureaucrats and not actual "responsability", but rather *who* is being decentralized (along with their functions)

Another option is "departmentalization"

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Note added at 1 day11 hrs (2009-05-14 16:41:33 GMT)
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I personally think that "responsibility" in this context lends a bit too much ambiguity and openness to interpretation. See below for more context:

www.cid.harvard.edu/hiid/582.pdf

Additionally, the article below for me seems to imply that they're really decentralizing the "function" wholeheartedly--eg not just moving offices, but with that decision-making, responsibility, etc. So it really is a wholesale shift

Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decentralization

Alexander Totz
Local time: 08:46
Native speaker of:

English

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May 13, 2009 - Changes made by Emanuela Galdelli:
Term asked	DÉCENTRALISATION DE LA RESPONSABILITÉ => décentralisation de la responsabilité

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