BETWEEN POLITICS AND PROFESSIONALISM: POLITICIZATION AS A DEMOCRATIC DEFICIT IN THE PROCESS OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION REFORM

Abstract

The execution of political decisions, crystallized into a unified national policy, is indeed the most essential task of the administration. The term politicization of administration means the influence of party politics penetrating into public administration and imposing one’s own interests it also represents a politically motivated engagement of civil servants that guarantees exclusively loyalty to the ruling class, and not the quality of professional and administrative affairs. The politization is a phenomenon which, if given free rein, could badly shake the foundations of a democratic society.The experiences of several coutriestries indicate that a large-scale politicization of administration can develop into a malignant disease of society. In a study of the politicization of admin of istration, special attention must be paid tomutually related terms: political appointments (patronage) and political party activities of civil servants. The government can support political groups it favours by giving grants or by other methods . On the other hand various interest groups, especially economic ones, which have more or less direct contacts with the actual political groupings, can try to interfere in the public a administration. The passing out of favours through the administration to supporters of those who are in political power is, after bribery, what most op- deeply tends to weaken confidence in the democratic system of government. Politicized administration is perceived as a long-lasting legacy of the socialist regime that the transition through failed to eradicate.