Administration et politique en Italie : des logiques contradictoires

Administration and Politics in Italy : Contradictory Rationales. In Italy, the history of the relationship between politics and administration is marked by substantive contradictions between the principle of ministerial responsibility and that of administrative impartiality. Successive reforms of the public dirigenza sought to reconcile these two rationales and to fight against the structural immobility and functional marginalisation of the highest level administration. The introduction of a majority system makes the need for counterbalances increasingly necessary, amongst which the most important is surely the guarantee of a non-partisan administration.