Ontological principles of public administration

Abstract

The article is devoted to the definition of the ontological foundations of public administration.The article establishes that the emergence of the institution of public administration in legal science and state practice as a special method and structure for the implementation of certain functions of the state requires clarification of the features of the existence and existence of this institution, which will make it possible to understand its properties.The author has argued that the legal nature of public administration in a democratic rule-of-law state consists in the implementation by specially authorized representatives of the state and / or representatives of territorial communities elected in accordance with the established procedure, aimed at the realization of the interests and needs of individuals and legal entities within their competence established by law or by-laws. legal acts This is the natural-ontological aspect of public administration.The structure of public administration is considered from two perspectives: firstly, as the structure of the public administration itself, with the latter's inherent hierarchical nature, institutionalization of the functions performed and focusing on the competence of officials of public authorities. Secondly, this is the structure of the public administration process, including setting goals, identifying tasks, choosing subjects, endowing them with appropriate functions and powers, planning and monitoring their activities, choosing criteria for evaluating their activities and conducting the assessment process itself in accordance with the selected criteria. of these angles creates the structural aspect of the ontology of public administration.Attention is focused on the fact that the dynamic aspect of the ontology of public administration is the value and objective orientation of the activities of the public administration within the framework of the public policy existing in a particular state in accordance with a specific sphere of public relations.It was made that ontology as a formal specification of a certain subject area in the process of public administration in a democratic legal state performs the functions of connecting the conceptual-strategic level of public policy, characterized by a high degree of abstraction, with a practical-activity level, at which the needs of participants in public legal relations and urgent tasks are realized specified policy.