Two or three pillars of administrative sciences and the concept of inclusive administration

Abstract

Development of inclusive public administration is facilitated by the approach, according to which the science of public administration is viewed not only as a discipline related to the existing reality but, primarily, as a discipline formulating synthetic evaluations and making proposals initiating changes beneficial from the point of view of citizens and public interest. In other words, the departure from the aforementioned conventional concept of three pillars of administrative sciences in favour of a dualistic concept of these sciences, namely administrative law and science of administration, which integrates two functions, i.e. a descriptive one that may be considered equivalent to the classical science of administration and a normative one, characteristic to administrative policy studies with a focus on proposals, strategies and goals. It seems that besides the premises of inclusive democracy, inclusive economy and the concept of inclusive administrative law, such an attitude may be a component of the inclusive public administration interpreted as a kind of a new organizational and functional model of administration. The model should have such features as the widest possible involvement of citizen groups and their organizations into the decision-making and organizational processes of public administration, and a focus to the administration organizational structure and decision-making processes from the perspective of values and goals serving public interest and particular individuals’ interests.