https://booksandideas.net// Books & Ideas is the English-language mirror website of La Vie des Idées, a free online journal which has gained a large readership and established itself in France as a major place for intellectual debate since 2007. en SPIP - www.spip.net https://booksandideas.net/local/cache-vignettes/L144xH68/siteon0-04014.png?1675949311 https://booksandideas.net// 68 144 https://booksandideas.net/The-Enduring-Mammoth https://booksandideas.net/The-Enduring-Mammoth 2023-12-12T06:30:00Z text/html en Jean Le Bihan Society liberalism public services civil servants <p>Cutting the number of civil servants is a topic that is raised at each election in France. Why this anti-civil service attitude, despite public services themselves being constantly praised? Why this hostility, even though as soon as electoral campaigns are over, it is usually left without any practical consequences?</p> https://booksandideas.net/China-Back-to-the-Imperial-Sense https://booksandideas.net/China-Back-to-the-Imperial-Sense 2012-02-17T14:31:02Z text/html en Pierre-Etienne Will History China state civil servants empire <p>Historian Pierre-Etienne Will decodes the current official reevaluation in China of some Qing dynasty officials as great patriots and paragons of bureaucratic ethics.It may be attributed to the resemblance between present-day political life and the context of fear and muffled political confrontations that characterize the Qing, contrary to the Ming.</p>