Exister dans et par la crise. La gestion de la crise sanitaire comme mode de légitimation du « local »

Existing in and through the crisis Management of the health crisis and legitimation of decentralisation - This article is based on a study of the national press and documents produced by associations of local elected representatives and territorial civil servants It analyses first the way in which local and regional authorities presented themselves through speeches and policies between March and August 2020 and second how their actions and positions were supported or relayed by editorialists, journalists and experts In doing so, the article shows how the “coronavirus crisis” was able to fuel the decentralising cause, by publicising the action of local authorities but also by providing new arguments to the advocates of decentralisation © Ecole nationale d'administration Tous droits reserves pour tous pays