De l'évaluation des politiques publiques à la "performance totale"

The article defends the following thesis: the evaluation of public policies is increasingly arranged in a succession of concrete devices aiming, in fact, at measuring the performance of public services. This partly reduces the scope of evaluation processes by inserting it into realistic devices characterized by the development of metrology. It also transforms the way in which the reality of effectiveness is uncovered. This thesis is accompanied by the idea that the pre-eminence of "performance" is the symptom of a double dissolution: first, the dissolution of policy evaluation in the measurement of public service performance. Second, collective performance, and with it social progress, is dissolved into the sum of individual performance.