Les instruments de mesure de performance au service de l’action publique : une analyse comparée des dispositifs de régulation de la recherche universitaire dans les communautés belges ; PERFORMANCE MEASURING INSTRUMENTS SUPPORTING PUBLIC ACTION: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF REGULATORY DEVICES FOR UNIVERSITY RESEARCH IN THE BELGIAN COMMUNITIES

peer reviewed ; Political discourses help to define the legitimate and mobilizable conceptions to justify a certain exercise of power: it is at the level of their pragmatic translations within the devices of government that a certain "theory of action" is read that proposes and legitimizes the political problem to be solved and the modalities of public intervention (Rose & Miller, 1992). This article mobilizes a constructivist perspective that integrates the transformations of the state and its modes of action in Belgium, in the field of science policy: since 1988, universities have follow... Mehr ...