Prospects for the Development of Open Public Administration and Public Control: Constitutional and Legal View

Abstract

In the study, the author proceeds from the fact that open state and municipal administration as a concept and practice with huge potential is systematically associated with the development of effective mechanisms of public control. A number of conclusions and proposals are suggested for discussion, including the following: 1) implementation of the formats of open state and municipal governance in combination with the evolution of control and supervisory activities, public control gives a synergetic effect and significantly increases the confidence of society, citizens, business in the system of public authorities and their activities; 2) an extremely important role in achieving positive effects and practical results is played by the comprehensive digitalization of control and supervisory activities, state and municipal management in general, which is why this trend needs to be continued, making the relevant technologies and services even more understandable, accessible and convenient; 3) the new philosophy of state and municipal management currently being formed and improved should include effective open administration and organization of control and supervisory activities based on building a full-fledged partner and service model of such activities; this new philosophy should fully embody the evolving ideas of clientcentricity and the key principles of the concept of the «State for the People.» A number of specific proposals have been formulated, including normative ones, aimed at further development of digitalization of public control, including a proposal to study the issue of creating and developing a single portal of public control in the Russian Federation.