CANANEA, Giacinto della

Le citoyen el l'administration - Paris : IIAP, juil./sept. 1993

The birth of the republican state and the adoption of the Constitutions of 1948 have led to a more balanced relationship between citizens and administration. The implementation of certain constitutional principles, which only started in the sixties has progressively led to a general chage of the framework of citizen/administration relatioships, which were previously dominated by the opposition between authority and liberty. Since twenty years, a number of elements have accentuated this evolution: a better protection of the citizen against administration, the participation of citizens, the developement of contractualization, the evolution of social rights and the growing influence of private and EC law. This has led - at least partially - to a redefinition of the concept of citizen