| Titre | Introduction | |
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| Auteur | Mme Gwénaële Calvès | |
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Revue | Revue française d'administration publique |
| Numéro | no 118, juillet 2006 Fonction publique : "ressembler à la population" ? | |
| Rubrique / Thématique | Fonction publique : "ressembler à la population" ? |
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| Page | 245 | |
| Résumé anglais |
Representative bureaucracy theory's ideal vision of a civil service which reflects the
wider population is used to counter two types of criticism levelled at public administration : one, an Anglo-American view, which queries the democratic legitimacy of
non-elected civil services, and another, multinational state argument, which contests the
legitimacy of the state itself in a quasi-secessionist context. In whichever form, this
theory requires the need for legal distinctions between different groups of citizens
(according to their sociological and, if appropriate, ethnic background) as far as civil
service recruitment, career development and organisational regulations are concerned. If
this approach to public administration were to be applied to France, a comprehensive
review of the principles of neutrality, secularism, equality and general interest would be
necessary. Nevertheless, analysis of multinational states'quota systems shows how such
regulations can be relaxed if a more flexible approach is adopted. Source : Éditeur (via Cairn.info) |
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| Article en ligne | http://www.cairn.info/article.php?ID_ARTICLE=RFAP_118_0245 |
