Seize the State through its administration.

Summary This issue's thematic dossier proposes to study the administrative workings of public action in order to better understand the State. It continues the reflections begun during a colloquium organized on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the Centre de sociologie des organisations (CSO). Far from a simple commemorative aim, its contributions offer a transversal look at the contemporary metamorphoses of the State. Contributions to the dossier: "Seizing the State through its administration. For a sociology of the workings of public action" (Olivier Borraz and Émilien Ruiz). "The new bureaucratic phenomenon. Le gouvernement par la performance entre bureaucratisation, marché et politique" (Philippe Bezes) . "La haute fonction publique entre organisations, professions et patrons. A comparative sociology of administrative labor markets" (Natacha Gally) . "Between loosening and tightening the state lock. French local authorities between autonomy and state regulation" (Patrick Le Lidec) . "Half a century after Pierre Grémion. Re-understanding centralization from the periphery" (Renaud Epstein).