Part Of Public Administration Research Articles

The Case for Gauging as a Research Purpose in Public Administration: Connecting Purpose, Frameworks, Design, and Norms in Applied Research

This article proposes “gauging” as an unrecognized and useful research purpose for public administration. Unlike an explanatory research purpose, which uses an experimental logic and hypotheses, gauging incorporates a logic of rating and frameworks like standards. It is used in normative assessments such as accreditation, process evaluation, and regulatory policy. We argue that it should be part of public administration’s research tradition because it is widespread in public administration, links to applied research and practice, provides summative and formative assessment, connects evidence to the logic of law, and draws on pragmatism as a link to theory and mixed methods.

Public Administration in the Reputation Era: A Conceptual Exploration

While public administration scholars have studied reputation management for a while, the concept of reputation is coming front and center in governance practices – for better or worse. In this paper, we introduce the Reputation Era, building upon other schemas of understanding administrative development. While reputation management has always been part of public administration, we argue the Reputation Era emerges in a postmodern condition focusing on images and slogans as creators of knowledge, coupled with a digital space that creates instantaneous opportunities to bolster or ruin a reputation. Reputation in this era becomes an input, throughout, output, and outcome rather than only an afterthought. Public values, then, shift in a Reputation Era as cornerstones such as transparency, performance management, and citizen participation, get subsumed into constructing a positive reputation and could lose their mooring to democratic practices if not carefully managed. We offer testable propositions based on our Reputation Era argument.

FEATURES AND ROLE OF STATE FINANCIAL CONTROL AS PART OF THE RUSSIAN LEGAL SYSTEM

In the modern Russian state, a large-scale reform of supervisory and control activities is being carried out. The priority task here is to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of control and supervision, as well as the revision and updating of legislation. In recent years, the reform of updating and improving legislation in the field of financial control has been carried out and continues to be carried out. Indeed, to date, a huge array of acts has accumulated, including those of the early 90s with a noticeably outdated system of bodies and an outdated concept of financial control. Therefore, they are recognized as invalid and new strategic documents of a national, informational, and economic nature, approved by Decrees of the President of our state and containing priority goals, take their place. Therefore the research trends and impact of control activities and effectiveness through the implementation of these activities is of particular relevance that derives, including the purpose of the article, which aims to explore issues of financial control and oversight, in both practical and theoretical aspects. It is important to analyze the role of financial control, its main directions at different stages of this control mechanism, the list of key features of state financial control, the sources on which control activities are based, the methods by which its subjects implement financial control and carry out control measures. And also to characterize it as part of public administration, the institution of financial law and the control relationship, since it is through the legal relationship with its inherent features that control is implemented. A your authorized subject is able to influence other participants of legal relations through mandatory regulations to oblige to a legitimate implementation of the law, and its specific object as the second party to legal relations which are not simply the specific benefit and a specific person (natural, legal), and public law, are obliged to observe the norms of financial law

Do IT Tools Help Develop Community Policing? Lessons Learned from the Implementation of The National Security Threat Map in Poland

In many countries, the police, as a part of public administration, have witnessed many changes during the last few years. This article explores the process of the reform of the Polish police force, which took place between 2015 and 2017. Doing so examines in detail the process of implementing an IT tool – The National Security Threat Map – by paying particular attention to the mechanism of engaging external stakeholders. This study is conceptual but empirically focused. The paper posits that, despite the hierarchical nature of the police administration structure, it is possible to build an engagement of external stakeholders.

ГОСУДАРСТВЕННОЕ УПРАВЛЕНИЕ В ОБЛАСТИ ИНОСТРАННЫХ ДЕЛ В РОССИЙСКОЙ ФЕДЕРАЦИИ: ПОНЯТИЕ, ПРАВОВОЕ РЕГУЛИРОВАНИЕ И ОСНОВНЫЕ НАПРАВЛЕНИЯ

The subject of the research is aspects of public administration in the field of foreign affairs in the Russian Federation: the concept, legal regulation and the main directions. Conducting an independent foreign policy is one of the main activities of the state. Public administration in the field of foreign affairs is considered as an important part of public administration in general, ensuring the position of the state in the international arena, its external relations. The objectives of the article are to define the concept of public administration in the field of foreign affairs, systematize and characterize the regulatory framework governing the studied public relations; identify the main directions of public administration in the field of foreign affairs in modern Russia.

КОМУНІКАТИВНІ ТЕХНОЛОГІЇ У ВЗАЄМОДІЇ СУСПІЛЬСТВА Й ОРГАНІВ ПУБЛІЧНОГО УПРАВЛІННЯ ТА АДМІНІСТРУВАННЯ

The purpose of the article is a comprehensive analysis of communication technologies of interaction between society and public administration and administration. It is emphasized that one of the functions of public authorities is communicative. The importance of establishing a communicative process in the system of public administration and administration as a dialogue and interaction between equal actors, where the use of direct information channels and feedback channels should be balanced and manifested through various electronic forms of participation. There are three main models of electronic participation: management model; consultative model; participation model. It is substantiated that the availability of a developed information infrastructure is a condition and indicator of the effective-ness of public administration and the use of information and com- munication technologies is associated primarily with the implementation of the e-government project. It has been proven that in order to increase the efficiency of public administration and administration by transforming the existing bureaucratic system, it helps to make it more flexible and adapted, less hierarchical and regulated, and to make the transition to post-bureaucratic organizations. Transferring the service to electronic form eliminates the negative, dysfunctional practices inherent in modern bureaucracy. The study found that the reforms taking place in the system of electronic communication of public administration and society are to some extent ambivalent and contradictory. It has been proven that without broad administrative reforms aimed at improving the functioning of the state apparatus, the introduction of e-government technologies will not be effective and will be reduced to long and unsuccessful attempts. One way out of this situation is to adopt a new theoretical paradigm of administrative reform, in which e-government will cease to be a complement to bureaucratic structures, and systematic management of all administrative processes to achieve the end results will become a central part of public administration.

Cybersecurity as an integral part of public administration

The modern era is the era of the information society, which is characterized by the dominance of information and communication technologies in all spheres of human life. The use of technology has become a habitual norm of everyday life of citizens, corporations, the state. At the same time, the use of technology and communication networks carries risks of abuse and malicious action. Therefore, cybersecurity issues are more relevant and important. In this context, the leading role in the use and protection of information and communication systems should belong to the state, which has the organizational and administrative apparatus and power to implement these tasks.

Applications of GIScience for Land Administration

Land administration is an essential part of public administration. Geographic Information Science (GIScience) deals with the concepts, principles, and models of geographic information. Land administration has always adopted new technological and scientific developments and thus it is reasonable to check, which results from GIScience can be used to improve land administration systems. This editorial paper introduces the key research areas for land administration. After that, 12 original papers are presented, which provide a general picture of recent trends in land administration research. This Special Issue shows that land administration as a scientific field is still evolving and adopting to the changing societal needs.

Rendészet és jogalkalmazás (néhány gondolat egyes alapfogalmakról)

Ez a rövid írás lényegében egy előkészítő tanulmány. Két alapvető, egymással össze is kapcsolódó kérdéskört vizsgál: a rendészeti tevékenység és a jogalkalmazás fogalmát, jelentését. Egyik célja, hogy a rendészettudomány aktuális helyzetéről kezdeményezett diskurzushoz hozzájáruljon. A rendészet a közigazgatás részét képezi, a rendészeti tevékenység a közigazgatás egyik működési területe. Alkotmányos jogállamban a közigazgatás a törvény alá rendelten működik. Mind a rendészetre általában, mind a rendészeti jogalkalmazásra vonatkozik ez a követelmény. Amikor e fogalmakat, jelenségeket értelmezzük, a rendészet mint közigazgatási tevékenység jog alá rendelésének vizsgálatához is hozzáteszünk valamit. Másrészt e fogalmak körüljárása során a közigazgatástudomány számára is értékelhető gondolatok születhetnek. A tanulmány bemutatja a rendészet fogalmának legfontosabb magyarországi meghatározásait. Röviden elemzi, hogy a német szakirodalomban milyen közigazgatási területeket tekintenek a rendészet vagy a rendészeti jog körébe tartozónak. Rövid elemzést kap az angol rendőrségi, rendészeti felfogás is. Ez alapján kirajzolódik a rendészeti tevékenység tárgya. A jogalkalmazás fogalmát a jogértelmezés és a jogi érvelés összefüggésében elemzi. Az általános normát (a jogszabályt) konkretizáló és egyediesítő döntési tevékenységet nevezik jogalkalmazásnak. Ezt többnyire a jog nevében erre felhatalmazott szervek (bíróság, közigazgatási szervek, rendőrség) az erre rendelt eljárás során viszik teljesedésbe. Fontos az a megállapítás, hogy az elméleti megközelítés számára jogalkalmazás és a jogértelmezés valójában egyetlen műveletként fogható fel.

Local Self-Government as a Problem of Political Theory

The article aims at restoring local self-government as a research problem of political theory. In contemporary political science literature, local self-government is not treated as one of its normal, standard research problems. The main obstacle of its ambiguous position within political theory is, as I argue, the forced and imposed apolitical character of local self-government considered as a part of public administration. Despite some degree of organizational, especially institutional and legal, self-determination, the local self-government is not a political, i.e. sovereign entity. However, its non-sovereign status, which is legally established, does not exclude the existence of political potency in it.

School and Education as a Part of Public Administration in the Perspective of a Smart Organisation – Selected Attributes

Abstract The study is aimed at emphasising the selected aspects of smart education with regard to the school perceived as an intelligent knowledge-based organisation challenged by state-of-the-art civilisational and technological educational solutions. The study focuses on school and education with respect to the structure and function of public administration perceived as an intelligent organisation. School and educational services will determine and influence future generations of public administration staff. Their brainpower as well intellectual resources (knowledge, skills and experience) will serve the welfare of the society. Highly intelligent administration may win the respect for the organisation itself and for its services rendered to the society.

Samorząd zawodowy a pojęcie administracji publicznej

Artykuł porusza zagadnienie ustrojowoprawnej pozycji (charakteru) polskiego samorządu zawodowego, o którym mowa w art. 17 ust. 1 Konstytucji. Sprawia ono problemy, które – mimo że są dostrzegane już od dłuższego czasu – nie zostały jak dotąd rozwiązane. Dotychczasowe opracowania na ten temat nie dały jednoznacznej odpowiedzi na pytanie: czy samorządy zawodowe, które sprawują pieczę nad należytym wykonywaniem zawodu zaufania publicznego, są w znaczeniu podmiotowym jednym z dwóch – obok samorządu terytorialnego – rodzajów (typów) administracji samorządowej, będącej częścią administracji publicznej? A także czy realizacja przez nie konstytucyjnych zadań jest sprawowaniem władzy publicznej? Odpowiadając na powyższe pytania, za punkt odniesienia przyjęto art. 184 Konstytucji, który przez generalne zadekretowanie kognicji sądów administracyjnych wyznacza również granice terminu „administracja publiczna”. Ponadto odwołano się do art. 17, który konstytuuje samorząd zawodowy i samorząd gospodarczy. Dzięki temu było możliwe wskazanie różnic pomiędzy oboma samorządami, które to różnice nie pozostają bez wpływu na końcową tezę badawczą.

Administrative activity as characteristic of public administration

In the article the conducted development of theoretical aspects of determination of administrative activity is as part of state administration. The different scientific looks researched for formulation of concept of administrative activity, the basic constituents of this concept are certain in relation to state administration. To understand the nature of the administrative activity, it is necessary to research different approaches to its understanding. Analysis of publications allows to consider administrative activity as: part of public administration; component of activities of law enforcement agencies; administrative management. The main purpose of administrative activity as a characteristic of public administration is assurance of internal administration of performance of defined public tasks and strategic priorities of respective subject. Its effectiveness (through successful operational model, management decisions, administrative methods) can improve the quality of the statehood strategy in a specific area, sometimes by hiding its disadvantages. Administrative activity in public administration has certain features, which are related primarily to the fact that spheres of state influence are too diverse and, correspondingly, administrative processes in public administrative subjects differ depending on the need to perform certain tasks.

Management control and public sector performance management

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to investigate whether and how evolving ideas about management control (MC) emerge in research about public sector performance management (PSPM).Design/methodology/approachThis is a literature review on PSPM research through using a set of key terms derived from a review of recent developments in MC.FindingsMC research, originating in the management accounting discipline, is largely disconnected from PSPM research as part of public administration and public management disciplines. Overlaps between MC and PSPM research are visible in a cybernetic control approach, control variety and contingency-based reasoning. Both academic communities share an understanding of certain issues, although under diverging labels, especially enabling controls or, in a more general sense, usable performance controls, horizontal controls and control packaging. Specific MC concepts are valuable for future PSPM research, i.e. trust as a complement of performance-based controls in complex settings, and strategy as a variable in contingency-based studies.Research limitations/implicationsBreaking the boundaries between two currently remote research disciplines, on the one hand, might dismantle “would-be” innovations in one of these disciplines, and, on the other hand, may provide a fertile soil for mutual transfer of knowledge. A limitation of the authors’ review of PSPM research is that it may insufficiently cover research published in the public sector accounting journals, which could be an outlet for MC-inspired PSPM research.Originality/valueThe paper unravels the “apparent” and “real” differences between MC and PSPM research, and, in doing so, takes the detected “real” differences as a starting point for discussing in what ways PSPM research can benefit from MC achievements.

Organization Intelligence and Bureaucracy Reform at Public Organization in Indonesia

Organization intelligence and bureaucracy reform are important part of public administration. It is values and credibility agreed (the shared value and beliefs) which is learnt, applied continuity becoming main characteristic as guidance for organization members have behaviors, concurrently increasing its performance. It achieved through bureaucracy reform. In taking an easy way of explaining and more operational bureaucracy reform, thus government proclaims nine programs of acceleration bureaucracy reform. Illustrating paradigm changing, organization structure, management, policy, framework term and human resource intelligence work that are guided to budget conserving, rectifying public service quality, stimulating government performance mechanism efficiently and effectively. Tidying up of organization intelligence by one of its dimension is the difficult act into bureaucracy reform implementation while compared with intelligence process, structure and procedure. This research is done by applying descriptive methods of qualitative analysis include in a case study research. The result shows that one of public organization has implemented integrity values, professional and accountable in an internal area of nine programs on bureaucracy reform acceleration. There are nineteen activities becoming part of following up of these programs that totally reflect on an organization intelligence dimension, the suggestion of this model and able to overcome obstacle factor. In accelerating realize apparatus whose have integrity, professional and accountable need a lot of activities as following up of survey result of nine programs on bureaucracy reform acceleration program both of internal or external areas cooperate with independent institution.

СПРЯМОВАНІСТЬ ІНФОРМАЦІЙНИХ ПОТОКІВ ЯК ЧИННИК ЕФЕКТИВНОСТІ ПУБЛІЧНОГО УПРАВЛІННЯ

The article emphasizes that the exchange of information is an important part of public administration. It is noted that most scientific publications on this issue are devoted to the introduction of e-government. It is shown that for stable and effective community development it is necessary to establish a bilateral exchange of information. The main complexity of this process is that society is a complex dynamic system in which you can select individual groups. Examples are groups: youth, people of retirement age, IDPs. The latter group is divided into subgroups. This is an additional proof of the complexity of the system in which information exchange takes place. The different orientation of the interests of individual groups allows us to formulate the first task of information flow management. This is an analysis of the environment in which information is exchanged. It is determined that one of the main conditions for the effectiveness of information exchange is its accessibility. It is shown that this concept applies not only to people with reduced mobility. The next task of management is to monitor the problems that concern certain groups. On the basis of such monitoring, it is possible to establish concrete purposes, to define methods of their achievement. It has been shown that the structure of social protection services should be reviewed in order to obtain information from groups requiring support. It is necessary to organize a department that should collect information about the needs of this group and disseminate information about the opportunities provided by the government. The principles of information support that allow to improve information exchange are highlighted. These include: reliability of information; topicality; content; focus on certain social groups; the ability to convey information to target groups; the degree of discussion of information in making management decisions; continuity of information provision taking into account changes in the internal and external environment; information presentation culture.

ADMINISTRATIVE AND TERRITORIAL REFORM OF LATGALE IN THE CONTEXT OF NAUTRENI PARISH (1917–2016)

Major part of Public Administration are administrative territorial divisions. The original territorial classification of Latgale developed over a long cultural and historical time period. During the period of Soviet occupation changes in territorial breakdown occurred more frequently, adapting to USSR model. This article gives a general insight in reforms of administrative territorial classification of Latgale, starting from 1917 until 2016. In this article Nautreni parish, part of Rezekne municipality, is used as an example to explore these reforms in more detail. So far in studies territorial reforms in Latvia are reflected only in general without going into local scale of territorial boundary changes. But the local history research is vital to get better understanding of the historical concept and important part of this research are archive materials.

СОЦІАЛЬНІ МЕРЕЖІ – СУЧАСНА МОВА КОМУНІКАЦІЙ ТА ЕФЕКТИВНИЙ МЕХАНІЗМ ПУБЛІЧНОГО УПРАВЛІННЯ

The article identifies the advantages of using social networks and highlights the disadvantages of traditional communication between government officials and citizens. As social media is a huge virtual community today, the peculiarities of communication on such platforms open new opportunities for communication with different audiences, and the presence of citizens on social networks emphasizes the need to involve them in government interaction. This article considers the online platform as one of the social communication media and provides a basis for measuring the indicators of effective communication. In turn, this implies concepts such as transparency, involvement, cooperation and comfort. And based on the analysis of a particular social network in the material identified indicators of successful communication as an integral part of public administration. In addition, communication in social networks between the state and citizens is viewed through the formation of a phased approach from initiation by one party to full interaction of both parties, when the audience focuses on the advocacy position towards the initiating party, abstracting from external circumstances. The article also focuses on the factors of influence to make decisions for the use of social networks by representatives of public administration. Thus, research on the effectiveness of the use of social networks examines the components of effective two-way communication. And in this case, it confirms the effectiveness of using social online platforms for the implementation of information campaigns in the future, already as a component of an improved communication process. Since the process of virtualizing changes the very way of transmitting information to the audience. The use of social networks enhances the role of the updated management mechanism through online channels. Therefore, the indicators for measuring the quality of interaction indicated in the article correlate with the concept of forming the image of public representatives in the modern information space and have prospects for mandatory use by both specific individuals and groups, and institutions.

Samorządność gminna i jej gwarancje w Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej i w kraju związkowym Brandenburgia

Communal self-governance and its guaranties in the Republic of Poland and in the Brandenburg LandThe subject of this article is the commune in the Republic of Poland and in the Brandenburg Land. A commune is a part of public administration which is based on decentralization. The legal construction of this basic entity of local government was created in view of its self-governance. The main methodology used in this work is based on the textual analysis of legal acts. The aim of the following work is to explain the conceptual meaning of communal self-governance in the aforementioned states and to analyze the comparability range of its concept. In the Brandenburg Land the concept of communal self-governance is built on the basis of self-governance guaranties. These guaranties are analyzed in detail. While in the Brandenburg Land the catalogue of these guaranties is well-known and acceptable, in the Republic of Poland it is still unclear. In order to arrange this issue, a comparable classification of self-governance guaranties in the Republic of Poland was proposed.

Розвиток системи місцевого самоврядування в Україні

Статтю присвячено дослідженню питання розвитку системи місцевого самоврядування в Україні. Особливу увагу приділено розгляду елементів цієї системи в умовах реформаційних змін у місцевому самоврядуванні та територіальної організації влади в Україні. На основі аналізу законодавчих актів робиться спроба виділити особливості підходу до визначення системи місцевого самоврядування на різних етапах розвитку держави. Розвиток місцевого самоврядування в сучасних умовах став важливим вектором суспільної трансформації. Перехід від вироблення концепції реформування місцевого самоврядування та територіальної організації влади до практичних дій потребує втілення теоретичних положень у законодавство, що регулює місцеве самоврядування як складову сфери публічного управління. Важливим з цієї точки зору є, зокрема, питання щодо основних складових системи місцевого самоврядування в Україні. У сучасній науковій літературі питання системи місцевого самоврядування в Україні та її складових знайшло своє висвітлення в публікаціях В. Вакуленка, М. Баймуратова, О. Батанова, П. Біленчука, В. Борденюка, І. Дробота, В. Кампо, В. Кравченка, В. Куйбіди, В. Олуйка, М. Орлатого, В. Погорілка та інших дослідників. Проте виникає потреба звернутися до проблеми системи місцевого самоврядування в Україні у зв’язку з процесом змін, який розпочався в останній період розвитку держави.