La evolución del derecho es un fenómeno complejo que acompaña los cambios en la sociedad, lo mismo que los propicia o los retrasa. La colección Pensamiento Jurídico Contemporáneo, coordinada por Diego Valadés, aborda los problemas más relevantes de esta disciplina en la actualidad mediante el análisis de especialistas de diversos campos. Este volumen está dedicado al derecho administrativo, que se ha vinculado a la función administrativa, influenciada por las ideas del organicismo y del estructural-funcionalismo positivista. Las contribuciones aquí reunidas tratan la participación ciudadana en la administración pública, los nuevos modelos de organización administrativa, el combate a la corrupción, el derecho a una buena administración, la justicia administrativa, entre otros temas. Bajo la coordinación de Daniel Márquez Gómez, este título incluye textos de Juan Carlos Benalcázar Guerrón, Francisco Javier Coquis Velasco, Isaac Augusto Damsky, Jorge Fernández Ruiz, Ana Elena Fierro Ferráez, Miriam M. Ivanega, François Julien-Laferrière, Miguel Alejandro López Olvera, José René Olivos Campos, Margarita Palomino Guerrero, Juan Francisco Pérez Gálvez y Jaime Rodríguez-Arana Muñoz.

Throughout its three sections, this book presents, under a historic, political and social view, the difficulties that exist about the performance of public servants and the deficient regulations that rule over them. In the first chapter, it explains in a critical way the definition of being a public person and base on that what a public servant is or should be. The next chapter gives a brief historic-political outline inside the context of the different modifications the concept of public servant has had and the delimitation of their specific tasks for the common wellbeing. The third and last chapter, is a suggestion to resolve this issue, in here it is proposed in a more clear way, the necessity to retake a system of values that will not only be legislative, but also ethical, that will allow the main organ (the institution) and the holder (the servant) to have a compliance on the duties of the public servants, meaning that they dont have to be completed because of a punishment but because they had built a relationship of trust between them.