TY - BOOK AU - Gélédan,Fabien TI - Degreasing the Mammoth. Bodies of the Reforming State during the RGPP PY - 2021///. N1 - 57 N2 - This paper studies how the representations of the State impact the work of reformers during a singular episode of public management reform: the General Review of Public Policies (RGPP). Yet, the State is depicted through the abstract analyses drawn from the RGPP audits. But theses representations find a strange parallel in caricatures, made by the modernizers themselves. The State is pictured as a fat clumsy mammoth and is designated as a body to be reformed. In contrast, the image of an ideal body is proposed by reformers: the optimal State. Through this study, I aim to advocate for the renewal of study of representations of political bodies. I also draw out some of the issues at stake in thinking about the reform of the State UR - https://shs.cairn.info/journal-revue-francaise-d-administration-publique-2021-2-page-363?lang=en&redirect-ssocas=7080 ER -