An Individual in the Contemporary Public Administration

Abstract

The paper deals with the urgent issues referred to the system of contemporary public administration of the Russian Federation and the place a person occupies in the system. The study is aimed at achieving the following goals: (1) to characterize an individual in the system of public administration based on the anthropological approach in aspirative and essential discourses; (2) to analyze the requirements for a civil servant in terms of the given approach; (3) to draw conclusions about the qualities that a person must have proceeding from the peculiarities and requirements of a modern system of public administration; (4) to reveal and outline possible ways of overcoming corruption in the sphere of public administration. To attain the objectives of the study, the authors widely used methods of system analysis and analysis of the regulatory framework, in close correlation with the available statistical data on the issues studied. Special attention was paid to the professional qualities of civil servants, which form the basis for the development of the human resources capacity of the public administration system. The study of the abovementioned aspects allowed the authors to identify the major system requirements for civil servants, as well as to consider the essential side of the state apparatus. Supposing an individual to be a part of the public administration system, the authors also observe corruption, one of the main problems of the contemporary authorities. In the paper, this negative phenomenon is characterized from the standpoint of the normative legal approach, personnel management, and the state personnel policy in general. The authors presented their grounded point of view on the role of public consciousness in the prevention of corruption.