Public Administration in Political and Administrative Practice

Relevance. Public administration has been acquiring a new quality in recent years and there is increasing interest in it from modern social and humanitarian sciences and political and administrative practice. It is being transformed, new technological tools and management mechanisms for its implementation are emerging. Politics and public administration have long been not only "transparent" to society, but are formed and implemented with active civic participation, institutions of public-private partnership, public expertise, etc. are consistently developing. Political and administrative practice increasingly offers a wide range of state and municipal services based on the use of ICT and digital services. Meanwhile, it should be noted that there is insufficient scientific activity in the field of analysis and assessment of the state of theoretical and practical developments in Russian political science.
Purpose - is to assess the state of development of the category "public administration" in modern political science, taking into account certain aspects of the political and administrative practice of its implementation.
Objectives: definition of the formed approaches to understanding the essence and content of "public administration" at the present stage of Russia's political development; based on the analysis of scientific results in scientific articles by Russian scientists on the problems of "public administration" to determine the most significant factors influencing the transformation of approaches to understanding the contents of public administration; to determine the dominant approach to the study of public administration and trends in the development of mechanisms and the emergence of new tools for the implementation of public administration in political and administrative practice.
Methodology. General scientific and private scientific research methods were used. The primary scientific information and scientific results published in the public domain are analyzed. An interdisciplinary research method was applied.
Results. A part of the new knowledge has been developed to understand the approaches that have developed to date to understanding the essence and content of "public administration" in Russian political science and the most significant factor of its transformation in political and administrative practice in the near future has been identified.
Conclusion. Public administration is updated today. Taking into account modern ICT and digital technologies, public administration offers more and more mechanisms for effective interaction of government, society and business for development.

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