FEATURES FORMATION OF OBJECT-SUBJECT SPHERE OF SCIENCE PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION IN UKRAINE

Abstract

The purpose of the study, the results of which are presented in this article, was to clarify, on the basis of hermeneutical approach and linguistic-semantic analysis, the definitions of the basic categories of the subject-subject field of modern Ukrainian science “Public administration” within the field of knowledge “Public administration and administration”. It is proved that the basic category of the Ukrainian state-administrative science – “Public administration” – remains a polysemantic generic concept and a defining object of science from which other categories of its subject sphere originate. It is shown that unreasonable diversity of categorical apparatus does not enrich, but rather clog up the scientific lexicon. In today’s context, it is a kind of marketing trap for incompetent consumers in the wake of educational and scientific services. The authors argue that the modern political and scientific concept of public administration in the future greatly expands the horizons and object-subject field of science of public administration in the field of knowledge “Public administration and administration.” After all, public administration can be considered not only as a new political-managerial concept (in this context it should be explored as a relevant direction of socio-political reform within the object of science “Public Administration”), but also as a modern scientific category, which in its own right content goes beyond the subject field of public administration. In other words, not all public administration can be public (for example, national security management) and not every public administration is public (eg self-organization of territorial communities, self-government of public organizations, political parties, etc.). At the same time, it is possible to take very radical steps to correct the basic categorical apparatus of science “Public Administration” in Ukraine. Based on the accumulated material, an important role is played by clarifying the content and definitions of the basic categories that form the basis of the modern conceptual apparatus of national science “Public Administration”. As its terminology was formed rather spontaneously, it is important to continue work on unification of the object-subject sphere of public administration within the framework of the unified system of the branch of knowledge “Public administration and administration” in Ukraine.