The outdated public management function in Spain and its relationship to a common regulatory framework?

Abstract

The Public Direction is one of de areas of the least evolved Public management in Spain, being fruitless or ineffective the attempts undertaken for profesionalizing this function. This deficiency receive major importance in a moment as the current one presided by the research of the transparency, the nearness to the citizen and the improvement in the quality of the public action. In this respect, the Spanish case answers to a multicasual approach in which this article will be fixed in alone one of his variants, since it is the determining one of the regulation or the legislation in the matter and his evolution. One tries to throw, definitively, light on if the scanty, ambiguous or slightly coercive current legislation on public direction can be in the background of the lack of evolution of the model or at least to be constituted in concausa of the above mentioned lack of evolution. It will be investigated specifically, of complementary form, in the fact of if it has had or not a legislative compendium to which it could be named a common regulation. The used, fundamentally qualitative methodology, it has been based fundamentally on the historical-political analysis as well as on a juridical análysis of the legislation; taking care in exceedingly the sources that there was providing this information, all of them high-level academician.