Public Administration in the Time of Legal Postmodernism

Abstract

The subject matter of this research is the peculiarities of public administration in the Russian Federation. The purpose of the study is to analyze the essential characteristics of managerial relations that develop in the modern system of public administration, as well as the features of its construction. It is stated that there are serious changes in government control, in the economic and legal spheres, which have led to the evolution of state governance, namely: the transition from state to public administration, when not only state authorities, but also various types of state and non-state bodies and organizations are involved in the administration of the state and society, as well as the use of new technologies. At the same time, it is assumed that the current state of law and the state can be called the era of legal postmodernism, which is characterized by an increasing role of destabilizing factors in society and the state, which entails changes in approaches to the government control and the mechanism of legal regulation. The author draws attention to the fact that building only one type of management system can lead to a decrease in the effectiveness of the progressive development of the state. Therefore, at different periods or in crisis conditions, the public administration system should be rebuilt from hierarchical (centralized) to heterarchical (decentralized) and vice versa, including combining elements in the process of restructuring both systems of public administration. It is concluded that the system of public administration in the Russian Federation should have the ability to adapt to rapidly changing internal and external factors in a short time, therefore it should have a spherical character, not a pyramidal one. The author attempts to clarify the types of managerial relations included in the subject of administrative and legal regulation.