Legal Nature and the Ratio of the Categories "Public Authority", "Public Administration" and "Public Administration" in the Modern Doctrine of Administrative Law

Abstract

The article examines the essence of public authority, public administration and public administrating as legal categories, defines their relationship as a basis for forming an optimal model of public authority in Ukraine in accordance with democratic principles of state formation, which is relevant in modern conditions, given the need to bring the organization of public authorities to European standards in light of Ukraine's European integration aspirations, its transition to a European civilizational model of public law institutions. The purpose of this study was to analyse the essence of the concepts of “public authority”, “public administration” and “public administrating”, and to investigate the relationship between these legal categories in modern administrative law. To achieve this goal, the study used general philosophical, general scientific methods of scientific knowledge (dialectical, analysis, abstraction, system), specific methods of scientific knowledge (comparative law (comparative), historical law), and special legal methods (formal legal, system-structural, activity). As a result of the study of the essence of the legal categories “public authority”, “public administration” and “public administrating” proposed their own definitions of these legal categories and concluded that the category “public administration” determines how to build public authority, which entities are endowed powers for its implementation, while the category of “public administrating” reflects the substantive part of public authority, i.e. the form and procedure for its implementation