Language: Italian
Content: The post-Fordist economy and new information technologies promote globalization processes. It seems, however, that politics and administration are still interested in cultivating national interests.
If politics produces “announcements” of globality, in its intervention in the concrete it leaves its hands free to world powers, and even to regional powers; or, more frequently, it decides neither on ends nor means.
The risk is that it fails even to achieve the functionality of its “secular arm”: public administration. This, in many cases, survives, in some cases even expands, but seems “cornered” and unable to reinterpret its mission. Assailed in its centrality by the public/private pendulum, it retains power but loses efficiency and effectiveness.
What will be the future of public administration? Historians, economists, philosophers, jurists, sociologists, organizational experts, and witnesses of the administrative and training professions ask themselves, without apocalyptic rhetoric or Panglossian optimism.
Communication, training, active citizenship, new constraints, technological resources, and integration processes at the European and global level seem to be the strategic factors capable of bringing Public Administration out of bureaucratic and self-referential stagnation.
