Public Services and fundamental rights

Abstract

Public Service is one of the fundamental pillars of Administrative Law. Yet, it still lacks a stable definition. Therefore, public service, as well as Public Administration, is easy to describe, but difficult to define because, just as is the case with public service and the legal framework that governs it, Administrative Law is a product of history and it depends largely on the idea one has about the State, which is subject to an ongoing process of change and transformation. As a result, public service is an element that changes as the purposes of the State also change in different moments. Nevertheless, different theories, or interpretation variables and definition criteria, about the definition of Public Service throughout history. Nowadays, public service is recognized as a human right, which justifies its universality, equality or uniformity, regularity and continuity.