Constitution and Administration
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https://doi.org/10.63277/gsc.v36i.4567Keywords:
Public administration, Constituent Assembly, Italian constitution, Massimo Severo GianniniAbstract
In the Italian Constitution only two articles, 97 and 98, are explicitly about Public Administration. Even if this subject appears indirectly in some other points of the text, but in general the constituents gave few attention to this issue. The members of the assembly did not have any experiences, or studies, about the world and culture of public office. Even the political parties were outside this topic. The debate about Public Administration went on with lack of participation and modest follow ups. All the profitable work made by the two Fortis committees (by the second in particular) had been ignored in anticipation of the Constitution. Massimo Severo Giannini, who tried to introduce the consciousness of all the great transformations during the thirties in public authorities field, hadn’t been elected in Assembly. Even if he was chief of staff at the Ministry for constituent Assembly his contribution remained the only one. From the point of view of the attention to the administrative state, to new public agencies, to the imprenditorial state, the Constitution was born already old.
