Development of public service in french fifth republic: gaullist and postgaullist periods

Abstract

In proposed paper the main stages of the French public service evolution within the framework of the specific conceptual basis and institutional ontogenesis of the present Fifth Republic (both Gaullist and postgaullist periods) has been analyzed. Based on the results obtained complex dialectics of traditions and modernization of French public service has been described. In particular, it’s been proved that French administrative reforms first implemented as far back as the early 1980s, more often than not embraced divergent trends such as: the applying of the career development system to the territorial (local) public service within the conditions of simultaneous decentralization and the enhancement of the territorial communities’ autonomy; restricted and not always consistent agencification in terms of traditional legal form that is characteristic of public institutions (Établissement public); new forms of bureaucracy in the expenditure control (in particular, pursuant to The Budget Act, 2001) along with implementing the tools of the New Public Management concept. It’s has been grounded that the problem of efficient coordination for such different directional trends cannot be solved at the system level. They are combined in a compulsory manner according to the iteration evolution model of France: new or renewed constitutional system and political regime are established as a result of the incapability to resolve the systemic social crisis via the former public model.

Keywords

• реформування публічної служби Франції
• модернізація публічної служби Франції
• адміністративна реформа
• конвергенція громадянського суспільства та держав