ANALYSIS OF THE DEFINITIONS OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION AND REGULATION AND THEIR IMPORTANCE IN THE PRACTICE OF APPLICATION OF UKRAINE

Abstract

The article analyzes the scientific positions on the understanding of concepts of state regulation and public administration, which are somewhat different from each other. Thus, the researchers who study the theory and mechanisms of the public administration consider state regulation and administration in a broad sense, unlike the scientists conducting research in the field of economics. The latter, as a rule, give definitions of the state regulation and administration relatively narrowly, covering only the sphere of economic relations and everything related to the economics.

In general, the concept of state regulation is considered either as a state activity, or as a system of measures, or as a set of basic forms and methods of influencing a particular process or object. In our opinion, state regulation should be understood as the activity of the state, since the activity in its conceptual meaning can absorb both processes related to the application of the system of measures and processes related to the use of any complex of forms and methods of influence.

Taking into account the closeness in the conceptual sense of state regulation and public administration, aspects of the relationship between them are outlined. Given the functions of a transitional society state that is relevant to modern Ukraine, it is proposed to support the view that administration is an activity that uses available resources, and regulation is a broader activity that involves attracting additional resources to fulfill certain tasks.

The apparatus of public administration is defined as the main component of the process of practical implementation of tasks of the executive power. Accordingly, for the effective implementation of the tasks arising in the process of state regulation and public administration, it is necessary to define clearly these concepts, which, in our view, must be unified (unambiguous). Only in this case the scientific-research activity will be able to be used qualitatively by the apparatus of public administration and be practically useful.