Tradition and Change in western civil service systems

Civil service is a main and central institution of public administration. Public administration is a component of more encompassing state traditions or governance styles. For institutional-historical, cultural differences and unique style of governance, western single civil service systems in spite of similarities, have characteristics that separate them into two groups of Anglo- American and continental systems. System of civil service of these countries is a set of institutions, rules and provisions and personnel that in terms of style of relations with political authorities, civil society and citizens makes a unique special bureaucracy that defines concept and extend of civil service and rights and duties of employees and transforms in context of domestic and international developments. This article with an analyticdescriptive methodology is an attempt to find roots and resources of the tradition and change in civil service system of the western countries.