Conceptual and Ideological Factors of the Modern Public Policy Quality

Abstract

The article discusses the issue of ideological and conceptual factors which exert significant influence on the quality of the state policy in modern societies. The ratio of these factors and those taken into account in various quantitative methodologies is currently an integral part of the discussions concerning modern states, political regimes, democratization and modernization. The political evolution of societies is impossible without conceptual and ideological factors. This means that approaches and methods for assessing the quality of public administration will depend on the value definitions which underlying the understanding of the desirability or undesirability of specific management steps. An example of the contradictions that arise in the process of the influence exerted on the effectiveness of public administration by conceptual factors is the debate around ESG, which itself reflects the crisis of the popular concept of “governance.” The growth of social requests based on “trendy” left-liberal interpretations of human rights and civil society, on the one hand, forms the trajectory for the development of public administration in many modern countries, but, on the other hand, the same request can lead to “overwhelming of the state,” which repels an increasing number of non-Western states from this approach.