translate English to French: When one moves beyond press releases to probe the administrative history of reforms, it becomes clear that many comprehensive initiatives announced by prime ministers or central agencies embrace, gather up, and move along initiatives already underway, sometimes identifying new issues and dimensions or injecting momentum.176 At the same time, public service systems always have many smaller, bottom-up initiatives and innovations underway at any time,177 both within and across department boundaries, which may collectively result in great change across the institution, but might never be conveyed nor celebrated in a coherent manner.
Il faut aller plus loin que le simple communiqué de presse et sonder l’histoire administrative des réformes pour comprendre que bon nombre des initiatives importantes annoncées par un premier ministre ou des organismes centraux couvrent, englobent et accompagnent des initiatives déjà en cours, parfois pour cerner de nouveaux enjeux ou d’autres aspects, ou encore redonner un élan176. Par ailleurs, la fonction publique est toujours animée d’initiatives et d’innovations plus petites, issues de la base177, tant ministérielles qu’interministérielles, qui vont bon train.