CRISIS OF THE EFFICIENCY OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION: THEORY AND PRACTICE

Abstract

The article discusses the question that time-tested public administration mechanisms lose their relevance gradually, there is a deligitimation of the traditional system of relations between state administration and civil society, as well as revision of the terms of the social contract between states and civil society, taking into account the requirements of the present time. Proceeding from the fact that the epoch of “great governments” is coming to an end, the problems of de-bureaucratization of state administration, the search for a new model of state power with significantly limited functions and power-administrative powers are becoming more urgent.

Considering Ukraine through the prism of these transformation processes, it should be noted that with the attainment of independence, a process opposite to that which occurs in the developed countries of the world began, namely, the growth in geometric progression of a self-sufficient and uncontrolled neo-patrimonial bureaucracy. It is a question of the total expansion of state administrative structures into all spheres of public life with the aim of gaining full control over them, the verticalization of state administration, the de facto refusal to implement the principle of separation of powers, and, in recent times, the suppression of civil society through the use of force.

The main task of the political elite and public managers of different levels, according to the author, should be a moderate and wise use of achievements in the field of public administration in other countries, which have tested their effectiveness on their own experience. For example, the introduction of the elements of the “zero-based budgeting” system into the national public administration would create the opportunity to actually start the process of fighting corruption through, at least, through the reorganization of the activities of certain agencies on homogeneous functions.