BIHAN, Danielle Charles-Le <br/><br/>
La transformation du jeu social entre les services publics et leurs agents 

 - Paris :  IIAP,  oct./déc. 1996 
<br/><br/> The opening up in France of the major public services to competition has been accompanied by a sensitive social agenda, which has generated real confusion between public services and the state. Changes in the status of companies charged with carrying out public services and in that of their personnel, are linked to the destiny of the concept or public service. From the point of view of personnel status, this period of transition calls into question the traditional criteria establishing civil servant status and basic concepts such as the "mission" and the "organisation" of public services. Socio-professional relations are torn between the logic of the general interest (which civil servants are charged with pursuing) and the logic of the market place (which strongly imbues the developing contract culture). This change in social relations as the heart of business charged with the task of carrying out public services leads us to rethink the notion of public service in order to construct a new social legitimacy