Types and functions of public administration

Any state possesses only natural resources, financial capital, and intellectual potential. From the skilful organization of public administration, the level of its economic and social development depends directly. In other words, the management organization consists of the composition of social operating institutions, representatives of state power and territorial organization.

State management may include the activities of government authorities in the implementation of legislative, judicial and executive functions.

The main goal of public administration is to achieve optimality in the created conditions to ensure a decent level of social status. When considering this issue in an economic prism, it can be said that the management activities of the relevant bodies should be aimed at identifying strategies for long-term economic development and creating suitable conditions for its implementation with the aim of improving the living standard of the population.

The realization of these goals should be based on the following principles of public administration: general principles that disclose the content and purposeful direction of management, organizational, technological and private, which are the direct management of people's activities.

The social essence of any state is known through the functions of state administration, since any country without its interaction with the society loses its essence.

These functions are sufficiently multifaceted and depend on a specific goal in a certain area of management activity.

The main functions of public administration:

- political - a function that ensures the integrity and safety of society in the form of the state;

- social - a function aimed at ensuring the rights and freedoms of citizens throughout its territory;

- economic - a component of the functions of public administration, responsible for creating the necessary prerequisites for an effective and orderly activity of the society in the economic sphere;

- the maintenance of the sovereignty and freedom of the state within the international community.

There are other functions of public administration that reflect the interaction of the subject and the object of management (functions of organization, forecasting, planning, motivation and control).

Types of government are sufficiently widely reflected in the scientific literature. Depending on the structure of the central government and the administrative units, coordination and subordinate management can be distinguished. The first kind is a characteristic feature for federations, within this department rather broad powers are granted to the regions. Subordinate management characterizes unitary states in which the functions of public administration at all levels are realized in the form of uniform standards, while it can be noted and strict subordination of the regions to the center.

The next criterion for distinguishing the types of government is its impact on the object. In this spectrum, we can distinguish:

- sectoral management, assuming the existence of vertical subordination from the center to any business entity;

- functional management, which is carried out by the executive branch in such important areas as economics, defense, social development and security. Thanks to this management activity, the effective external and internal policies of the state are ensured.