Le principe de neutralité dans la fonction publique

The examination of the situation of the french civil servants as well as the british and the american ones, from the french revolution till today, proves clearly one variant determination of the legislator and the administrative judge, with unequal results, to eradicate the different types of politicization in the administration of the civil service. But the civil servant has not become a politically diminished citizen, in ocntrast to that which occured in gret-britain and the united states. The effort to protect neutrality of the civil service resulted in the adoption of the different laws (statutes) which, from 1946, constitutes one efficient way to shield the (french) civil service from the partisan pressures by assuring its independance impossible without the subordination to the political power. But there are still multiple causes of politicisation. The increasing participation of the civil servants in politics (fonctionnarisation du pouvoir politique), the politicization if the higher civil service and syndicalism are also factors which accent the interest int he current debates concerning the better protection of neutrality.