Irène BELLIER - Do the ENA students form a tribe, a corps or a spirit?

Pouvoirs n°80 - L’ENA - janvier 1997 - p.43-54

The author analyzes the constitution of the students of the ENA into a social and professional group by highlighting the processes of internal differentiation and of definition of a collective identity which they experience during their stay at the school. The acquisition of a single language, a single method of dealing with issues and a similar spirit which was supposed to limit the isolation of the higher civil service has, instead, ended up in isolating the group itself. The competitive spirit which is part and parcel of the hierarchical system, together with the inequalities that exist between the higher civil service and the other administrative bodies, are a heavy burden on the relationships within the group and between its members and the rest of society. Résumé

Référence électonique : Irène BELLIER, "Do the ENA students form a tribe, a corps or a spirit?", Pouvoirs, revue française d’études constitutionnelles et politiques, n°80, 1997, p.43-54. Consulté le 01-06-2012. URL : http://www.revue-pouvoirs.fr/Do-the-ENA-students-form-a-tribe-a.html