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This research aims at spreading knowledge methods and recipes of the New Public Management label. The renewal of local staff would be an ideal vehicle for local governments to convert to the manager rationality. This work is a localized analysis of generational struggles between the various components of administrative elites within a regional Council. It attempts to describe the dynamics of circulation of this new version of the “self-interest of State”. Indeed, public servants are opposed. However, the institutional framework where they struggle has a strong executive. In this context, the relationship with managerial knowledge seems less related to the profile officials as structural logic of politics.