Craig Lamay Television Autonomy And The State

Between 1998 and 2002, France implemented an array of policies designed to promote the commercialization of new economy technologies. These efforts have turned French innovation policy on its head. Efforts to promote the new economy have proved politically and socially contentious. Many French policymakers and public intellectuals fear that regulatory liberalization might threaten or undermine state sovereignty. Trumbull addresses these concerns in this text, describing France's new technology policy as both boldly new and familiarly French.

Unlike autonomous professionals in Western industrialized democracies, professionals in a socialist, bureaucratic setting operate as employees of the state. The change in environment has important implications not only for the practice of professions but also for the concept of professionalism itself.