La fonction publique vers la «privatisation»
In: Revue française d'administration publique, Band 67, Heft 1, S. 347-354
The Civil Service, Towards Privatization
Since a long time, the evolution of Italian administration has been under the alternative influence of a hierarchical model (bureaucracy) and a business model (management). The Italian civil service has not escaped the consequences of this phenomenon : it was mainly based upon the hierarchical model and has resisted until recently to different attempts of modernization inspired by the business model. However, there seems to be a radical turn with the Legislative Decree n° 29/1993 — so-called privatization decree — which reforms dramatically the regulatory framework of public employment by decreasing the scope of legislative regulation and favouring collective agreements between unions and public employers. Another phenomenon is increasing : the "southernization" of the civil service is caracterized by a shortage of personnel in the North and a growing distance between administration and society.