Administrative reform, ethics and openness the balance between effectiveness and administrative identity.
- 1995
- p.41-60
- Mar
The author discusses the relationship between openness, ethics and administrative reforms in details. A civil servant `concerned' by ethics is likely, where necessary to make his action known to the citizen, and vice versa, and the civil servant who really practices openness is likely to display an ethical attitude in difficult cases. But both do not entirely overlap. Not every manifestation of ethics requires openness and, similarly, not even act of openness is an ethical act