GARCÍA CÁRDENAS, Luis <br/><br/>
La gouvernabilité :  une aspiration ancienne, des approaches nouvelles 

 - Paris :  ENA,  avril/juin 2000 
<br/><br/> In this day and age most political-administrative systems are undergoing a severe crisis on governability. Experimental reforms have had mixed results. The future is, therefore, very uncertain following many aborted attempts at reform such as, in Mexico, the desire to establish a career civil service. There are two series of reasons, political and admnistrative, which explain the crisis in governability. At the political level: an absense of legitimacy, a lack of credibility and an insufficiente involvement of citizens within the systems; at the administrative level: a lack of efficacy, efficiency and effectiveness within the governmental apparatus. The preferred means for overcoming this serious crisis of governability should be the quest for a truly democratic form of government