THE DEFINITION OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION

TOWARDS A FRAMEWORK FOR ANALYSIS

Анотація

  The article analyzes the concept of “public administration” as the basic category of the updated doctrine of administrative law. Critical analysis of existing approaches to the definition of this category is carried out. It has been discovered that scientific discussions among the national scholars-administrators concerning the content of the term “public administration” began as a consequence of the direct translation of the English term “public administration”, but by a second-time was followed as scientific search for the content load. The emphasis is placed on the fact that the scientific search for the content load of the term «public administration» should correspond to the logic of the system connections of the conceptual terminology apparatus of the administrative-legal science in general and to take into account that the process of adaptation of the category “public administration” into the national legal-administrative doctrine sideby-side happens along the delineation with the category of “state administration”. It is emphasized the need to consider the specifics of public administration through the prism of quantitative and qualitative indicators. Taking into account the established peculiarities of public administration, in the conclusions an author’s definition of this concept is given. As a conclusion from the study, it is emphasized that public administration should be perceived in the scope of all administrative relations governed by administrative law, not limited to management because the theoretical study of non-governmental areas has led to the adoption of the concept of “public administration”. The article states that public administration covers advisory, organizational and administrative activities and the provision of civil services, and its subjects are professionally trained people – public servants who perform specified types of work in government, self-government and civil structures. It is noted that the necessity of improving the conceptual-categorical apparatus of administrative law is systematically connected with the necessity of improving the practice of law enforcement in public-legal relations, taking into account the peculiarities of the sphere of public administration.