La réforme qui n'a jamais eu lieu. Projets et réformes administratives en Italie et en France en 1943-1948

The reform that never took place: projects and administrative reforms in Italy and France 1943-48 Our intention here is to analyse a few main themes of the reform in public administration in Italy and France after the Second World War, in particulary its primary goal – to democratise the administration -, its far-reaching effects and its protagonists. The reorganisation of the new political regimes was necessary, all the more so as they had to be a symbolic and legal demarcation from those precedenig. It proved to be a decisive period for republican Italy, one that would influence its institutional history for many years to come. The prosopographical study of the members of various reform commissions (with their different profiles and socio-biographical experiences) reveals facts that could explain certain differences between the political and judiciary culture of the Italians and that of the French.