The Development and Current Features of the French Civil Service System Philippe Bezes, Gilles Jeannot
The Development and Current Features of the French Civil Service System Philippe Bezes, Gilles Jeannot To cite this version: Philippe Bezes, Gilles Jeannot. The Development and Current Features of the French Civil Service System. Van der Meer Frits, Civil Service Systems in Western Europe, Cheltenham, Edward Elgar, p. 185-215, 2011. hal-01257027 HAL Id: hal-01257027 https://hal-enpc.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01257027 Submitted on 15 Jan 2016 HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est archive for the deposit and dissemination of sci- destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents entific research documents, whether they are pub- scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, lished or not. The documents may come from émanant des établissements d’enseignement et de teaching and research institutions in France or recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires abroad, or from public or private research centers. publics ou privés. Bezes Philippe, Jeannot Gilles, “The Development and Current Features of the French Civil Service System” in Van der Meer Frits (ed), Civil Service Systems in Western Europe, Cheltenham, Edward Elgar, 2011, p. 185-2015. The Development and Current Features of the French Civil Service System Philippe Bezes and Gilles Jeannot INTRODUCTION The French civil service is a complex institution to interpret as its historical development displays different ordering patterns with somehow contradictory orientations. The global image is well known: it is a unified merit and career based civil service system, traditionally associated with the idea of a strong state tradition (État is always capitalised) and the concept of service public encompassing an extensive number of public activities (from sovereign functions to industrial and commercial public services).
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