Nabokova O. Public administration: scientific interpretation, types, place in the modern system of legal categories

The dissertation is devoted to a comprehensive study of public administration in the category of administrative law. It was found that the main problems that prevent the introduction of the concept of “public administration” into the categorical apparatus of administrative law are the following: 1) the term “public administration” is widely used in the research of administrative and legal phenomena, but its justification is limited only to theoretical statements that are not have confirmations from practice; 2) the term “public administration” is not used in national administrative legislation, which indicates a low level of its scientific justification; 3) many administrativists were tempted to “improve” the categorical apparatus of administrative law by replacing the concept of “state administration” with “public administration”; 4) the majority of public administration studies that are offered today in the scientific literature are as far as possible from the needs of the objective world, because the subjective visions of one or several scientists of the meaning of the concept of “public administration” gives rise to the same subjective judgments and conclusions; 5) the concept of “public administration” proposed in the scientific and educational literature does not meet the criteria put forward for any scientific category:); 6) they try to reveal the content of public administration in broad and narrow meanings, repeating the mistake of the “state administration” category, which has already lost its methodological significance in the science of administrative law; 7) there are mutually contradictory concepts of defining the meaning of the concept of “public administration”, which complicates the use of this term in science, legislation and law enforcement activities.