THE ARCHETYPAL FOUNDATIONS OF THE JUSTIFICATION OF THE PHENOMENON OF “PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION” IN THE CONTEXT OF THE TRANSFORMATION PROCESSES INHERENT IN PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION

Abstract

The article attempts to clarify the essence and features of the concept of “public administration” in the context of radical transformations of public administration models (systems). The emphasis is placed on the fact that public administration, as a complex social phenomenon, is becoming increasingly developed due to democratization, decentralization, and openness of government.

The radical transformations of states and societies in modern conditions have led to marked transformations of government models. In theoretical and practical terms, the problem of clarifying the essence of the peculiarities of the phenomenon of “public administration”, which to date does not have sufficient justification, especially in “comparison” with the concept of “public administration”, has become urgent. Although most theories of public administration explain such governance as maximally democratic, decentralized, with wide public participation, public administration is often interpreted as a very specific phenomenon.

The author of the article proceeds from the assumption that the modern transformations of the models of public administration are first and foremost related to the radical changes of the relations between the states and societies, between the authorities and civil society. These subjects – subject and subject – object relations are becoming increasingly complex, but decentralized, democratic and liberal. Public administration is becoming more and more partner in content.

Therefore, in explaining the phenomenon of “public administration”, in the further search for its “difference” from the concept of “public administration” should proceed conceptually from the following:

1. It is necessary to take into account the fundamental fact that public administration and administration closely combine the two components. The first is the presence of a public authority that must be as open and democratic as possible. The second is the variety of democratic procedures involved in the public administration of the general public, the numerous civil society institutions involved in the development and adoption of public administration decisions and its practical implementation.

2. It is certainly not necessary to put a mark of equality between public administration and administration for the reason that by their role, the procedural implementation in the process of solving public problems and problems, they are quite different and, therefore, should be used, explained in combination.

3. Finally, the optimal model of modern public administration can be characterized as a partnership (state-society), which is built on the close interaction of government and civil society and is ensured by the developed social sounds between all subjects of public-administrative activity.

4. Public administration will continue to acquire a public-power nature in which the purely ideological dominant will minimize its role and importance. Already in the beginning of the XXI century, the processes of loss of political systems and regimes in many, especially highly developed countries, a pronounced ideological feature, and the leading positions came liberalization, decentralization, democratization of countries and societies, social relations between people, social relations between people. The modern development of human communities assures that such processes are almost irreversible.