General Conditions (Prerequisites) for Ensuring Legality in Public Administration

Abstract

The theory of administrative law contains general conditions (prerequisites) and special legal methods (control, supervision, appeal) and means (legal responsibility) to ensure legality. And if much attention is paid to the latter in the scientific literature, then the study of the general conditions (prerequisites) for ensuring legality in relation to modern realities has not yet been widely disseminated. At the same time, as practice shows, in modern conditions, it is not always possible to ensure legality in the activities of the apparatus of public authorities by special legal methods and means. The paper argues that it is the general conditions (prerequisites), being external factors, that have a significant positive or negative impact on the state of legality both in the country as a whole and in certain areas of public administration. Therefore, their understanding is especially important not only for the theory of administrative law, but also for the public power carrying out practical work. In relation to the current situation, the paper analyses such general conditions (prerequisites) for ensuring legality in public administration as ideological, political, legal, socio-economic, organizational conditions. The author substantiates the conclusion concerning complex influence of these conditions (prerequisites) both on the general level of legality, and on the use of special legal methods and means of ensuring legality in public administration.