Introduction — Crisis and Need for Renewal of Public Action, by Philippe Bance

Part I — Public Intervention after 2008

Philippe Bance – Budgetary Policies in the Crisis: Crash, Rescue, Boomerang: A Trap for Public Intervention?
The financial origins of the crisis
Public budgets and budgetary policies for the crisis
The boomerang effect of public indebtedness
Nathalie Rey – European States and Financial Systems: A Biased Relationship
For an exceptional financial crisis, exceptional public intervention
The financial crisis: the result of outdated traditional means of public intervention
After the financial crisis: better regulated European financial systems?
Luc Bernier – European Public Enterprises and the Economic Crisis: The Missed Opportunity
Nationalizations in the crisis
Instruments of economic policy
State, public enterprises, and Europeanization
Possibilities for transforming governance of enterprises

Part II — The Crisis of Public Action in France and in Europe

Jean-Claude Boual – French Civil Service in the Storm: Changing Ways of Operating and Policy
What is the civil service? Its role
Interweaving of reforms: an in-depth institutional and administrative overhaul
Hugues Jennequin – Public Policies and Territorial Development in France: What About Tertiary Activities?
Public policies for services and spatial planning: a progressive but slow ambition
Planning policies that are very largely industrial
The new public action maps
David Flacher and Hugues Jennequin – Liberalization of Network Industries: Theoretical Debate and Application to Telecommunications
Liberalization: between chimera and vain hope?
Liberalization, privatization, and regulation: an empirical justification?
Liberalization, regulation, and investment: the cases of telecommunications and electricity
Cathy Zadra-Veil – Public-Private Partnerships in Europe?
What is a PPP in Europe?
PPPs in Europe: tendency and changes
Evaluation and profitability
Mihaela M. Similie – What is the Contribution of Services of General Interest to the European Union's Cohesion Policy?
SG(E)Is and cohesion—establishment in the primary law of the European Union
SG(E)Is and cohesion—an evolving relationship in secondary law
The place of SG(E)Is in European cohesion policy with respect to ERDF funds (1975–2010)
The crisis and after: perspectives for cohesion policy and SG(E)Is
François Aballea – Wealth and Social Inequalities in Europe
Limits of international comparisons
Inequalities and wealth: a splintered Europe
The dynamics of inequalities: social logic
Widening inequalities

Part III — What New Foundations for Public Action in France and in Europe?

Pierre Bauby – Rethinking Public Action by the Measure of the European Union
A triple contradictory unity
The Europe of peace, economics, free markets, and law
The return of politics
Institutions and governance
Subsidiarity and proportionality
What democracy?
Regulation and evaluation
What actors?
The European Union is not a "nation State"
Outlines of new concepts
Philippe Bance – Coordinating European Budget Policies: for a Proactive and Geometrized Strengthened Cooperation
Theoretical foundations and formal determinants of coordination of budget policies
The European political-institutional process for coordinating budget policies and its asymmetrical impact
What new foundations for a European policy of coordinated dynamics?
Faruk Ülgen – The Stability of the European Monetary Space and the International Role of the Euro
The current context
Stability as a public good and the euro in the reform of the IMS
Jacques Fournier – The Difficult Re-conquest of Collective Functions
What principles of organization?
What dynamics of functioning?
Danièle Demoustier – Social Economy and Public Action: Enlargement, Substitution, or Stimulus?
An expansion integrated into the existing public arrangements
Toward commodification of the SSE?
A renewal of public action with the SSE?
Florence Jany-Catrice – New Indicators of Convergence for a Sustainable Europe?
Indicators for another development
Necessary conditions for the development of sustainable indicators
Indicators of convergence of a sustainable Europe?
What innovations?

Conclusion : The Imperative Metamorphosis of Public Action in France and in Europe, by Philippe Bance and Jacques Fournier
Restoring the "capability" of public authorities
Conducting multilevel public policies
Rebuilding European action
Renewing public action by democracy