PUBLIC MANAGEMENT: SCIENTIFIC AND SUBSTANTIVE DISCOURSE

Abstract

The article is devoted to the scientific discourse on the essence of public administration as a model of management of the affairs of society, which should be continued in the future to create the basis for the legislative consolidation of the term ‘public administration’ in Ukraine.

It should be noted that the concept of ‘public administration’ is not fixed in the Ukrainian legislation. At the same time, this research has once again confirmed that the concept of ‘public management’ is already in the scientific circulation. In the process of reforming public administration in Ukraine, certain steps were taken to establish and develop public administration. In addition, we note that ‘Public Management and Public Administration’ are included in the list of fields of knowledge and specialties for which higher education graduates are trained.

At present, evolutionary processes of public management formation are taking place in Ukraine, but practically management of the affairs of Ukrainian society is still carried out through administration, and some elements of management take place only. This concerns both functional and organizational structures and almost unmodern relations between them, as well as the absence of other management mechanisms inherent in management.

Governance of the country as a social and economic system requires the involvement of representatives of the whole civil society in the process of making managerial decisions. Thus, governance at the state level acquires the features of publicity, and the development of the theory and practice of state governance creates grounds for awareness of the leading role of public administration in a social evolutionary context.

It was established that the transition to public administration is connected with the ‘denationalization of management’: the deconcentration and decentra lization of functions and powers between the subjects of management; an increase in the subjects of management; and applying best management practices. We proposed state governance, which is carried out through administration, to denote as ‘public administration’. When applied, the elements of management, even at the transitional stage of development of society from administration to management as ‘public management’. Administration and management are varieties of management, its evolutionary levels.