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Jean-Marie PIllon  (2018)In: Sowa, Frank/Staples, Ronald/Zapfel Stefan (eds.), The Transformation of Work in Welfare State Organizations - New Public Management and the Institutional Diffusion of Ideas, Chap. 8."This chapter sheds light on the relation between job counsellors, management accountants and managers at Pole Emploi (the French job centre). Thereby, I would like to define the contemporary government of unemployment in France. The central question of this chapter is: how do management accountants rationalise and "frame" (Callon, 1998) counsellors' work ro solve the so-called efficiency problem of the state in reducing mass unemployment? Our research question derives from other field works addressing the contemporary transformations of the state. According to such literature, New Public Management accualises the long-lasting dynamics of racionalisacion in public bureaucracies - revealed by M. Weber (Hood, 1995; Bezes &#38; Musselin, 2015). Public organizations embraced an evidence-based steering and an objective measurement of their performance (Desrosières, 2003a)."Link to the book