PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION: THEORETICAL BASICS AND APPROACHES TO THE DEFINITION

Abstract

The author of the article has studied theoretical approaches to the definition of the essence and characteristics of public administration, its relationship with state and public administration, and the management process. Nowadays scientific literature does not have a single interpretation of the term «public administration (management)», which is related both to the general understanding of the meaning of this term, and to the problems of the implementation of its definition from international literature to domestic works. Theoretical approaches to the views on public administration can be reduced to the following:

– public administration is an analogue of the concept of «state administration», but is aimed at satisfying the needs and interests of the entire society, also it may be related to the provision of public services;

– public administration is a method of public administration or as its certain part (stage);

– public administration is a separate activity of public administration, which is expressed, in addition to the provision of administrative services, in the implementation and enforcement of laws and by-laws of the normative and legal acts;

– public administration includes internal management processes that take place in executive and local self-government agencies.

In our opinion public administration is regulated by laws and other system organizing normative legal acts, power and regulatory activities of state authorities and local self-government, which is aimed at streamlining their organizational structure, planning, preparation, development and implementation of managerial decisions, organization of the management apparatus, the implementation of documentary, information, personnel, and psychological support of their daily activities in order to achieve socially useful goals and the creation and operation of the relevant entity of administration.