The number of civil service personnel as an indicator of its reform effectiveness

Abstract

The dynamics of the number of civil servants from 1984 to 2014 is considered in the article. The hypothesis of the study that the number of personnel is an important indicator of the efficiency of the civil service reform is supposed. The method of determining the number of civil servants in comparable groups in terms of executable functions is designed and tested. It is found that the change in the number of civil servants takes place in the mainstream of socio-economic development of the country. The change of the share of civil servants in the population and among the employed in the economy is analyzed. Some proposals about the incorporation of the identified regularities during the development of reforming measures of the civil service are designed.