Olivier BEAUD - The Confrontation Between Political Responsibility and Other Forms of Responsibility of the Rulers

Pouvoirs n°92 - La responsabilité des gouvernants - janvier 2000 - p.17-30

Paradoxically political responsibility is seldom studied in France. This is probably due to the fact that French political history, rather tumultuous from the constitutional point of view, has never led to the institutionalization of the articulation between the action of the rulers and the control of the governed. As we are now witnessing an increasing social demand for responsibility, opting for the criminal responsibility of the rulers does not seem a satisfactory solution, and the arguments of those who advocate it (for the rulers as for civil servants) indicate a lack of knowledge of the virtues of classic public law and of the necessity of maintaining a special status for the State “representatives”. Résumé

Référence électonique : Olivier BEAUD, "The Confrontation Between Political Responsibility and Other Forms of Responsibility of the Rulers", Pouvoirs, revue française d’études constitutionnelles et politiques, n°92, 2000, p.17-3. Consulté le 02-06-2012. URL : http://www.revue-pouvoirs.fr/The-Confrontation-Between.html