In this system, the Public service serves a government that is viewed more as a Board of Directors of a company, in this case the State, obliged to deliver dividends to its shareholders, the taxpayers (Laforte, 1997: 6).
En Allemagne, les élites administratives sortent aussi bien des universités de Berlin (22 %), de Munich (20 %), de Bonn (16 %), de Cologne (12 %), de Freiberg (11 %), que de Gottingen (10 %) (Derlien, 1995, 78).