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Pierre-Henri Bono et al., « The slow development of public policy impact assessment in France: an actor-based approach », Revue française d’administration publique, ID : 10670/1.tdp6om
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Drawing on the conclusions of two recent studies commissioned by France Stratégie, this paper poses a critical analysis of the institutional and academic developments of public policy impact assessments in France. It demonstrates that rigorous statistical and econometric methods only make up a small (albeit growing) proportion of policy evaluations conducted in the country. Moreover, such production is concentrated in only a few specialized research centres. The institutional actors of policy evaluation (ministries, Parliament, court of auditors, etc.) have adopted an approach of policy evaluation that does not put the emphasis on identification of causality between a policy and its effects. They therefore rarely use these scientific approaches, preferring to resort to indicator monitoring or qualitative methods. In that context, the national statistics agency (Insee) and the ministries’ statistics services represent a distinctive feature of impact assessment practices in France, in that they are halfway between administration and scientific research.