La politique de l’emploi au Cameroun à l’épreuve de la fascination populaire pour la fonction publique

Abstract

This contribution poses the problem of the popular fascination for the civil service and its problematic link with the employment policy. It starts from an observation: generally, at the favour of the launching of administrative competitive exams and recruitments giving access to the public service, we systematically witness a massive and popular rush of young people who apply for a position as a public official or civil servant. On observation, this fascination of young people for the public service is linked with the perceptions and social representations that are built around the public agent and more particularly the civil servant. However, this popular fascination for the public service has perverse effects as much on the professional training and employment policy as well as on on the performance and efficiency of the public service.

Keywords

• civil service ; social representations ; popular fascination ; employment policy ; neo-patrimonialism.