[ De la justice pour une administration publique efficiente en Afrique ]
Volume 29, Issue 2, May 2020, Pages 197–205
BINI Essonam1
1 Université de Kara, B.P.: 43, Kara, Togo
Original language: French
Copyright © 2020 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Public administration in Africa has been undergoing restructuring for two decades. This process is justified by the dysfunction, if not by the lack of professionalism in the public service. In this restructuring, the consideration of values is necessary. However, in the absence of an architectonic ethical value capable of coordinating all other values, the process of such a revitalization only leads to the personal disengagement of public administration agents in Africa and the impoverishment of their relation to work, which leads in return, in other ways, to difficulties similar to those which we seek to solve. The purpose of the present paper is therefore to indicate that restructuring, in order to correct the decay of public administration services in Africa and to achieve an efficient productivity gain that can enhance economic efficiency, requires an architectonic ethical value, to coordinate others. This architectural value for us is nothing but justice. Our work starts from the necessity of the reform of the public administration in Africa to the requirement of the taking into account of the ethical values and finishes by emphasizing the Rawlsian conception of the justice as architectonic ethical value for a public administration efficient in Africa.
Author Keywords: public administration, reform, ethical value, justice.
Volume 29, Issue 2, May 2020, Pages 197–205
BINI Essonam1
1 Université de Kara, B.P.: 43, Kara, Togo
Original language: French
Copyright © 2020 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Abstract
Public administration in Africa has been undergoing restructuring for two decades. This process is justified by the dysfunction, if not by the lack of professionalism in the public service. In this restructuring, the consideration of values is necessary. However, in the absence of an architectonic ethical value capable of coordinating all other values, the process of such a revitalization only leads to the personal disengagement of public administration agents in Africa and the impoverishment of their relation to work, which leads in return, in other ways, to difficulties similar to those which we seek to solve. The purpose of the present paper is therefore to indicate that restructuring, in order to correct the decay of public administration services in Africa and to achieve an efficient productivity gain that can enhance economic efficiency, requires an architectonic ethical value, to coordinate others. This architectural value for us is nothing but justice. Our work starts from the necessity of the reform of the public administration in Africa to the requirement of the taking into account of the ethical values and finishes by emphasizing the Rawlsian conception of the justice as architectonic ethical value for a public administration efficient in Africa.
Author Keywords: public administration, reform, ethical value, justice.
Abstract: (french)
L’administration publique en Afrique est en pleine restructuration depuis deux décennies. Ce processus se justifie par le dysfonctionnement, sinon par la déficience du professionnalisme dans le service public. Dans cette restructuration, la prise en compte des valeurs est nécessaire. Or, en l'absence d’une valeur éthique architectonique susceptible de coordonner toutes les autres valeurs, le processus d’une telle redynamisation n’aboutit qu’au désengagement personnel des agents de l’administration publique en Afrique et à l’appauvrissement de leur relation au travail, ce qui mène en retour aux difficultés analogues à celles que l’on cherche à résoudre. Le but du présent travail est d’indiquer que la restructuration, en vue de corriger la déliquescence des prestations de l’administration publique en Afrique et de parvenir à un gain de productivité efficiente, requiert une valeur éthique architectonique pour coordonner les autres. Cette valeur éthique architectonique, pour nous, n’est rien d’autre que la justice. Notre travail part de la nécessité de la réforme de l’administration publique en Afrique à l’exigence de la prise en compte des valeurs éthiques et finit en mettant l’accent sur la conception rawlsienne de la justice comme valeur éthique architectonique pour une administration publique efficiente en Afrique.
Author Keywords: administration publique, reforme, valeur éthique, justice.
How to Cite this Article
BINI Essonam, “Justice for efficient public administration in Africa,” International Journal of Innovation and Applied Studies, vol. 29, no. 2, pp. 197–205, May 2020.
