Η ΣΥΓΚΡΟΤΗΣΗ «ΘΕΣΜΙΚΗΣ ΜΝΗΜΗΣ» ΣΤΟ ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΟ ΔΙΟΙΚΗΤΙΚΟ ΣΥΣΤΗΜΑ

Abstract

In order to ensure the fulfillment of day-to-day tasks as well as planning and implementing various public policies, it is necessary for public institutions to ensure both management and reproduction of their administrative information. In that context, institutional memory demonstrates a crucial role as a tool of policy formulation over public sector. Preserving and promoting institutional memory also requires active policies in terms of reinforcing permanent administrative personnel, by promoting their career path, their ability to occupy top- ranking positions into the bureaucratic hierarchy, expanding their role through participating to certain administrative activities (such as policy planning and preparing legislative acts), as well as the formation of a top-tier civil servants’ apparatus, distinguished as professionals and endorsing a sense of independence towards their particular duties. At the institutional level, operating public records is necessary to ensure the employees’ access to the available administrative data. At the same time, the role of independent agencies is proved to be crucial through the regulation of various important sectors of social and economic life without any political involvement. Towards the process of consolidating a strong institutional memory, the development of political party mechanisms and its subsequent political involvement into the administrative activities has created a negative precedent in our country, thus leading to the fragmentation, the downgrading of civil service executives as well as their inability to support long-lasting policies. Under that prism, certain initiatives, such as law n.4622/2019 are expected to promote a new public management model on the basis of administrative autonomy over politics, through encouraging and promoting the role of administration regarding formulation and management of public policies.