DELPECH, Laurens <br/><br/>
La diffusion de principes du management public dans l'administation américaine; l'exemple du civil service reform act de 1978 

 - Paris :  IIAP,  juil./sept. 1980 
<br/><br/> After a short description of development and present situation of the US public administration, the author discusses the 1978 Civil Service Reform Act which explicitly purports to change in-depth the behaviour of the US Civil Service, to transform a buraucracy into an efficient body likely to meet satisfactorily the requirements of the political power and the administered. This analysis of the recent reform of the Amercian Civil Service shows the ways along which moves the new public management which operates unquestionably under the key-words "targets" and "participation"