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Revue Revue française d'administration publique Mir@bel
Numéro no 68, 1993/4
Titre du numéro L'administration des parlements
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  • Sommaire du n° 68 - p. 4 pages accès libre

  • L'administration des parlements

    • Introduction - Pierre Avril p. 3 pages accès libre
    • Des modèles d'organisation fondés sur la séparation des pouvoirs
      • Les structures administratives des parlements — Perspectives comparatives - Vincent Tocanne p. 15 pages accès libre avec résumé en anglais
        The Administrative Structures of Parliaments. A Comparative Perspective. Comparing the administrative structures of Parliaments shows some constant features linked to the nature of the institution. All parliamentary assemblies share a common appearance in three major aspects : the administrative functions of the political instances which manage assemblies, the leading role of the highest officials of the assemblies and the big units which structure the parliamentary administrations. Nevertheless, it is not possible to find one typical organisational pattern : this is reassuring, as the sovereign assemblies are fully free to decide outside of any guidelines.
      • Autonomie et carrière — Le statut des fonctions publiques parlementaires - Bernard Moreau p. 15 pages accès libre avec résumé en anglais
        Autonomy and Career System The Status of Parliamentary Assemblies' officials. Contemporary democratic regimes have felt the necessity of granting a specific status to the officials of parliamentary assemblies in order to guarantee their independence from the executive. The legal regulations applying to these officials rely on very different sources : constitutions, general or specific Acts of Parliament or the internal regulations of assemblies. It is possible to wonder whether the existence of a status which establishes a specific link between officials and their administration is not putting a brake on external mobility, in contradiction with the objectives of training and career development. In-service training and training courses outside are only a partial answer to this problem.
      • Le régime financier des assemblées parlementaires en France - Michel May p. 10 pages accès libre avec résumé en anglais
        The Houses of Parliament's Financial Settlement in France. The sovereignty of Parliament stems from the principle of separation of powers as stated in article 16 of the french Declaration of human rights of 1789. Giving due respect to this sovereignty demands a financial settlement which guarantees a truly autonomous management. From the Revolution to Fifth Republic, rules and practices have efficiently safeguarded the financial independence of the Houses. Conventions of the Constitution have an important role to play. Written law, in turn, is sometimes generating paradoxical procedures.
      • Un renforcement des moyens d'action du parlement : les facilités et l'assistance fournies aux parlementaires dans l'exercice de leur mandat - Étienne Sallenave p. 11 pages accès libre avec résumé en anglais
        Reinforcing Parliament's Means : Facilities and Assistance to MPs During their Mandate. The importance of Parliament in a nation's government system is a result both of the constitutional setting and of the means MPs' have to play their role. This is why parliamentary assemblies have started important efforts of modernization in the last years. They have done it essentially along two lines : to facilitate MPs' access to information and documentation, and to give them a permanent supporting staff. Nevertheless, progress made along these lines should not hide the existence of disparities between countries or even within one and the same Parliament
    • Traditions politiques et équilibres institutionnels : la diversité des expériences nationales
      • Le «sergent d'armes» de la Chambre des communes - Philip Norton p. 9 pages accès libre avec résumé en anglais
        The Serjeant at Arms of the House of Commons. The Serjeant at Arms' functions go back to the XVth century and are essential to the good functionning of the House of Commons. The Serjeant at Arms is still appointed by the Crown, but acts to enforce the House's orders under control of the Speaker. With his staff, he is responsible for good order, administrative tasks and ceremonial functions.
      • L'administration du Bundestag - Wolfgang Zeh p. 10 pages accès libre avec résumé en anglais
        The Bundestag's Administration. Strictly speaking, the Bundestag's administration consists of about 2 400 officials. It has the same legal status as for instance a federal ministry : that of a supreme federal authority. The main characteristics of its organization derive from the internal structures of the Bundestag. This organizational scheme is comparable to that of federal ministerial departments and a series of other authorities. The purpose is to get a clear repartition of missions and tasks, in order to allow for a broad delegation of responsibilities to the lowest level subdivisions.
      • Les services de la Diète polonaise — La reconstruction de la démocratie - Xavier Roques, Paul Dannaud p. 10 pages accès libre avec résumé en anglais
        Administrative Services of the Polish Lower House Reconstructing Democracy. One of the specificities of polish constitutional law is that both Houses — the Lower House and the Senate — are distinct and are not two fractions of one Parliament. The Lower House's services have a staff of 1155 officials. The ‘soft revolution' of 1989 and the restauration of the Lower House's powers — which were only formal until then — have been accompanied by and important turn-over of higher officials. A modern and open administration has thus been set up.
      • L'administration de l'Assemblée nationale de la République du Sénégal — La théorie... et la pratique - Jacques mariel Nzouankeu p. 8 pages accès libre avec résumé en anglais
        The Administration of the National Assembly of the Republic of Senegal — Theory ... and Practice. The organization of the senegalese National Assembly is not very developped. This is due to the subordination of the Assembly to Government. Some legal texts, such as articles 51 and 52 of the Constitution of 1963 or the Internal Regulations of the Assembly are setting the framework of the organization and functionning of the Assembly's administrative organs, and the status of its personnel. Practice however differs largely from the principles. But the senegalese authorities are conscious of the institution's deficiencies and try to put them right by way of recent reforms.
    • Le point de vue des élus
      • Entretien avec Yves GUÉNA, vice-président du Sénat, sénateur-maire de Périgueux - Yves Guéna, Marie-Christine Henry-Meininger p. 3 pages accès libre avec résumé en anglais
        Members of Parliament's Views. Interviews with Yves Guena and Alain Richard. Two french MPs tell their views about the means provided to the Houses of Parliament. In the french concept, the legislative's work consists in amending, correcting and adjusting the Government bills. In this sense, Parliament has the necessary means to accomplish its mission. But in the field of counter-expertise and counter-proposals these means are more limited. The administrative services have a determining role in the management of the Houses and in the organisation of their work. The french interpretation of the separation of powers leads to a kind of isolation of Parliament's officials and probably to a limitation of their career perspectives.
      • Entretien avec Alain RICHARD, ancien député du Val-d'Oise, maire de Saint-Ouen L'Aumône - Alain Richard, Marie-Christine Henry-Meininger p. 7 pages accès libre
    • Conclusion - Didier Maus p. 2 pages accès libre

  • Études

    • Existe-t-il un système européen de fonction publique ? - Guy Braibant p. 8 pages accès libre avec résumé en anglais
      Is There A European Civil Service System ? Looking in detail at the national patterns of civil service does not make a common european system appear. Yet it is possible to find common features, which stand out in a clearer way as soon as one does not compare european countries with each other, but with the rest of the world. Although diversified because of each nation's specific history and culture, the european system of civil service may be summed up in the existence of specific statuses founded on a few fundamental principles. Applying common labour law — with a few amendments — to public officials is not the european solution, contrary to that of communist regimes and third world countries. Even if scope and detailed content of civil servants' statuses differ from country to country, civil servants in Europe usually work under a set of comparable specific rules
    • La réforme administrative graduelle en Russie - Michel Lesage p. 12 pages accès libre avec résumé en anglais
      The Gradual Reform of Russian Administration. Since december 12th 1993, Russia has a new Constitution, making of the Russian Federation ‘a democratic State applying the rule of Law, with a republican form of government'. The Constitution maintains a dual federal executive branch, which consists of the President — elected by universal suffrage — and a Government both responsible to the President and to the State Duma — the House of federal Parliament representing the nation as a whole. The President has undertaken a gradual administrative reform which deals with central government departments, the representative organs of local government, and the civil service.

  • Chroniques

  • Informations bibliographiques

  • Abstracts - p. 3 pages accès libre
  • Table annuelle 1993 - p. 5 pages accès libre