Journal article

Obedience/Disobedience and Civil Servants

Pages 149 to 160

Cite this article


  • Chauvet, C.
(2015). Obedience/disobedience and Civil Servants. Pouvoirs, No 155(4), 149-160. https://doi.org/10.3917/pouv.155.0149.

  • Chauvet, Clément.
« Obedience/Disobedience and Civil Servants ». Pouvoirs, 2015/4 No 155, 2015. p.149-160. CAIRN.INFO, droit.cairn.info/journal-pouvoirs-2015-4-page-149?lang=en.

  • CHAUVET, Clément,
2015. Obedience/Disobedience and Civil Servants. Pouvoirs, 2015/4 No 155, p.149-160. DOI : 10.3917/pouv.155.0149. URL : https://droit.cairn.info/journal-pouvoirs-2015-4-page-149?lang=en.

https://doi.org/10.3917/pouv.155.0149


English

Public Civil Service Law acknowledges a firmly grounded duty to obey, which is subject to a number of exceptions, including a duty or right to disobey. However, the duo obedience-disobedience includes a number of paradoxes resulting from the opposition between two contradictory requirements : to protect the administration if necessary against disobedience and to protect the civil servant, possibly by obeying an order that should have been ignored.

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