مجلة العلوم القانونية والاجتماعية
Volume 11, Numéro 3, Pages 34-48
2026-09-01
Electronic Administration And The Transformation Of Public Service Theory: Reconstructing The Classical Principles Of Public Service In The Digital Age
Authors : Rahmoun Ali .
Abstract
Electronic administration is frequently presented as a technical modernisation of public service delivery. This article argues otherwise. The displacement of paper-based administrative activity by digital platforms, dematerialised procedures, and automated workflows constitutes a structural transformation of the public service, not merely an operational upgrade. That transformation puts direct pressure on the three classical principles formulated by Rolland, namely continuity, equality, and adaptability, which were designed for a territorially bound, human-administered service. Each principle survives in the digital state, but its operational meaning changes in ways that classical doctrine did not anticipate and cannot accommodate without reconstruction. Drawing on French public service theory as the doctrinal foundation, and on comparative materials from Algeria, the European Union, and the UAE, the article demonstrates that digital administration preserves the foundational objectives of public service while transforming the legal mechanisms through which those objectives are realised. It further argues that this transformation generates a set of new legal guarantees, namely digital accessibility, cybersecurity, data protection, and procedural transparency, that classical doctrine cannot derive from the three Rolland principles alone. The article concludes that a coherent legal theory of the digital public service requires recognising these guarantees as autonomous legal obligations, and that their absence constitutes not a governance deficiency but a doctrinal gap.
Keywords
electronic administration; public service theory; Rolland principles; digital public service.
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