Les fonctions publiques à l’épreuve de la modernisation

Civil Service face to Modernization. The concept of modernization covers different realities, depending on the historical, political and institutional background. Nevertheless, Civil Service seems to lose its specific features and the difference with labour relations progressively disappear. Contractualization of civil service statute and decrease of the disparities between the rights and obligations of officials and employees characterize this evolution. But several contradictions appear, in the modernization process which put into question its efficiency and coherence : the conciliation between the cuts in public expenses and the delegation of responsibilities ; the increasing tendency to consider the citizen as a client ; the lack of political accountability and ethics

Humanities · Modernization theory · Political science · Philosophy · Social Sciences and Governance