Le passé et l'avenir de l'administration publique

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State Administration : Past and Future Tradition and modernity are the essential poles of reference in the administration of the state; and while those in charge of administrations should not confine their thinking to past experience, efficiency demands that they have a good knowledge of it and take it into account. The process of uniformization which we are seeing today can only be successful if built on the basis of a solid common ground. Going back to the Age of the Enlightenment, we find both common permanent principles and changing values. Among the first, the aim of the common good, respect for law, the principle of responsibility, the demand for efficiency, and what the European Union’s Charter of Fundamental Rights, drawn up in the year 2000, calls “the right to a good administration”. And among the latter, decentralization, transparency, participation and finally, internationalization.