Analyzing the Executive Tools of the Modern Public Administration

Abstract

The new governance follows the reduction of the direct intervention of the government and the redefinition of its role in the public sector, and the traditional public administration is bound to carry out reforms in order to adapt to the new conditions; In this regard, the aim of the research is to discover the elements of the transformation of the traditional French public administration in accordance with the new conditions. Therefore, by using the library method and the descriptive-analytical method, various factors of the evolution of public administration in France were investigated. Based on the research findings, the four new tools of transformation of the French public administration are: 1) Budget reforms, 2) Simplification, 3) Contractualism 4) The effects of multi-level governance in interaction with the European Union. As a conclusion, it seems that the French government is moving towards the requirements of the new public administration with an understanding in line with its administrative tradition, in the way of adapting to the requirements of the new governance, by using the aforementioned executive tools.