Orel M. Theoretical and methodological basis for the formation of the public administration system in the sphere of political security.

The dissertation focuses on the solution of the scientific problem in the sphere of public administration and proposes the rational of the theoretical and methodological principles of the formation of the system of public administration in the sphere of political security as well as ways to increase its efficiency in Ukraine. The article establishes the essence, outlines the characteristics and proposes the author's definition of the concept of “political security” as a sociocultural phenomenon, which has an objective and subjective nature and is an inalienable property of the functioning of social systems and its elements. It is determined that its level is an integral assessment: social and political stability; stability of social order; trends in the development of the political system and relations between its subjects; observance of human rights and freedoms; the protection of society from the dangers that are the result of evolutionary development; legitimacy of state power. The interdependence of such factors as the state of the vital potential (it depends on the natural-biological and social conditions of its development as a social system and includes the people’s cultural code), national values (they determine individuals’ value orientations), moral and ethical principles of behavior), the social order stability (it depends on the quality of horizontal and vertical structuring and streamlining of the internal environment of society through the coherence between the principles, values and goals of its elements at the moral, legal, program-target and conceptual-ideological levels), the social perturbation level (it is caused by the sociopolitical destabilization) has been determined and clarified. Their consideration is the essential prerequisite for political security as well as definition of strategic objectives of its provision.