The Professional Public Management in Spain and Portugal: an analysis neoinstitutional

Abstract

Civil service systems are products of public organizational models developed by welfare states in the last fifty years. In the case of Spain and Portugal we observe how from similar administrative traditions, evolution and consolidation of high lead role has been characterized in a similar way in their legal frameworks rooted in public law, but from political frameworks (system roughly territorial multilevel political culture and public decisions) and policy modernization (change management frameworks, design of the management function), leading to a wide variety of figures directives, processes of selection, training, career horizontal performance evaluation, appointment and removal. His key knowledge compared it seems necessary to define the “stakeholders” in the decision-making processes "polytechnics", as well as those that are revealed as the central actors in the process of design and implementation of public policy in general and administrative reform policies in particular, in each of the two States.