The pompous impersonality of officialese also, of course, allows the civil servant to hide behind the monolithic structure of his organisation.
The head of the civil service, a senior civil servant, is the secretary to the cabinet.
The fact is that by mid-century, the charismatic hero-expert was already being supplanted by a decidedly different breed of the civil servant.
It would be someone else's responsibility (the politician or the civil servant) to develop the policy concerned and to make it ready for implementation.
Hierarchies are rigid when it comes to the approval of the drafts and proposals prepared by a civil servant (fonctionnaire).
In 1991 the government passed landmark legislation that created the figure of the permanent civil servant.
If transposition does not produce personal incentives for the civil servant, delays in transposition can result.
No civil servant, no matter how exalted his rank, questioned the royal prerogative to entertain such direct appeals and to act on them.
