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IEPDP-Facultad de Ciencias Jurídicas y Políticas - LUZ
Conceptual understanding of the
relationship between political and
administrative processes in the context of
social systems security
DOI: https://doi.org/10.46398/cuestpol.4074.34
Hryhorii Sytnyk *
Mariia Orel **
Viktoriia Ivanova ***
Yevhenii Taran ****
Abstract
The purpose of the article is to conceptually understand the
relationship between political and managerial processes in the
context of social systems security. The bibliographical method,
content analysis, structural-functional method, comparative-
historical method, comparative-political method, cognitive map,
comparative method and abstract-logical method have been used in the
research. The scientic novelty is the realization of a systematic analysis
of the factors, which revealed the essence of the relationship between
political and managerial processes in the context of the security of social
systems. It is corroborated that political and managerial processes in social
systems and their interrelation should be considered, in content and form,
as phenomena of the vital activity of these systems. It is concluded that, the
analysis of peculiarities and intensity of this interrelation and functional
tasks of political and administrative subjects should be carried out in the
context of the modes (stages) of the existence of systems and their security;
all this, due to the management of the probability of a crisis situation
and the management of the level of protection of man, society and state
institutions.
* Doctor of Sciences of Public Administration, Full Professor, Head of Global and National Security
Department, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, 60, Volodymyrska str., Kyiv, Ukraine.
ОRCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3083-5733
** Doctor of Sciences of Public Administration, Professor of Public Administration Department,
Interregional Academy of Personnel Management, 2,Frometivska str.,Kyiv, Ukraine, 03039. ОRCID
ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9071-5602
*** PhD in Economics, doctoral student of Global and National Security Department Educational and
Scientic Institute of Public Management and Public Service, Taras Shevchenko National University of
Kyiv, 60, Volodymyrska str., Kyiv, Ukraine. ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4980-0765
**** PhD in Political Science, Associate Professor of Global and National Security Department, Taras
Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, 60, Volodymyrska str., Kyiv, Ukraine. ORCID ID: https://
orcid.org/0000-0002-1822-6978
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Hryhorii Sytnyk, Mariia Orel, Viktoriia Ivanova y Yevhenii Taran
Conceptual understanding of the relationship between political and administrative processes in
the context of social systems security
Keywords: political processes; administrative processes; public
management; security of social systems; conceptual
understanding.
Comprensión conceptual de la relación entre los
procesos políticos y administrativos en el contexto de la
seguridad de los sistemas sociales
Resumen
El propósito del artículo es comprender conceptualmente la relación
entre los procesos políticos y de gestión en el contexto de la seguridad
de los sistemas sociales. En la investigación se ha utilizado el método
bibliográco, el análisis de contenido, el método estructural-funcional, el
método comparativo-histórico, el método comparativo-político, el mapa
cognitivo, el método comparativo y el método abstracto-lógico. La novedad
cientíca es la realización de un análisis sistemático de los factores, que
reveló la esencia de la relación entre los procesos políticos y de gestión en
el contexto de la seguridad de los sistemas sociales. Se corrobora que los
procesos políticos y de gestión en los sistemas sociales y su interrelación
deben ser considerados, en contenido y forma, como fenómenos de
la actividad vital de estos sistemas. Se concluye que, el análisis de las
peculiaridades e intensidad de esta interrelación y las tareas funcionales de
los sujetos políticos y administrativos debe llevarse a cabo en el contexto de
los modos (etapas) de la existencia de los sistemas y su seguridad; todo ello,
debido a la gestión de la probabilidad de una situación de crisis y la gestión
del nivel de protección del hombre, la sociedad y las instituciones estatales.
Palabras clave: procesos políticos; procesos administrativos; gestión
pública; seguridad de los sistemas sociales; comprensión
conceptual.
Introduction
Political processes and public administration are important components
of human existence (individual), society and state institutions. They
reect social interactions as an objective basis, which are the interests
of individuals and social groups. These interests are formed under the
inuence of internal and external factors, and the result of interactionis
either unanimity or disagreement in understanding the situation, a certain
degree of either solidarity or conict, and so on.
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Therefore, the eectiveness and eciency of the relationship between
political processes and public administration depend on the national
characteristics of state-building and the external environment. At the same
time, the mission of political processes and public administration is to
ensure national security (Sytnyk and Orel, 2020; Orel, 2019). Therefore,
the systematic study of the factors on which the eectiveness, eciency
and interrelation of political processes and public management depends is
constantly in the center of attention of domestic scholars.
In this case, we are talking primarily about those that have an impact
on: institutionalization of public administration (Bilynska and Petroie,
2019); modernization of political and administrative institutions (Bozhko,
2019); conceptual foundations of management and theory of public
administration (Nelipa et al., 2020; Vlasenko et al., 2019; Bobrovska et al.,
2020); transformation of public administration in post-industrial society
(Osipov, 2020); innovative development in the context of modernization
of Ukrainian society and introduction of innovative approaches in the
activities of local government (Petrushyna, 2020; Zhorniak and Podplota,
2021). Signicant attention to the study of the relationship of political
processes with public administration in the context of the current stage
of civilization, and foreign researchers, including. Kondratenko (2020),
Schwab and Mallere (2020), Willmott (2019), Salvador and Pano (2018),
Osorio (2018), Phillips (2019), Othman and Yuso (2020), Cnossen (2019).
The results of these studies show thatthe fundamental pecularity
ofpolitical processes is thattheyareinterrelated with public
administrationprocesses,i.e. public management and administration,
there are signicant changes in forming and exercising political and state
power in the modern era, and thus eectiveness , eciency and quality of
interrelation of political processes with public administration has a decisive
inuence on the course of socio-political and socio-economic processes in
the state.
These and other researchers have developed a thorough scientic study
of the factors that determine the relationship of political processes with
public management.
At the same time, the systematic study of these factors in the context of
ensuring the safety of social systems continues to be an urgent problem.
For example, even in a very fundamental monograph by Hierro (2020),
examining the theoretical and methodological foundations and practices of
modern public policy and Drobotov (2020) monograph on the constitutional
and legal foundations of the formation and formation of Ukraine’s national
security system, and also in a comprehensive study of issues in the eld of
state policy to ensure national security, performed by
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Kryshtanovych (2019), this problem has remained out of the attention of
scientists. The same can be said about the scientic research on the analysis
of possible changes in the constitutional status of public authorities and
legal mechanisms of public administration in Ukraine Stepanenko (2021)
and the development of a very promising method of information and time
support of global, local socio-political and other processes in modern
security environment (Bohdanovych, 2020).
As a result, the relationship between political processes and public
administration in the context of security of life of social systems is hardly
considered in educational publications intended for higher education and
postgraduate students in the eld of knowledge (Administration, 2020;
Liu et al., 2019; Portugal, 2022).
This is the purpose of the study, which is to conceptually understand the
relationship between political and managerial processes in the context of
security of social systems. In accordance with the goal, the following tasks
were formulated: to analyze social phenomena, which denote the concepts
of «political process» and «management process», their possible forms,
dynamics and conceptual outlines of their mutual inuence; to nd out the
nature, features and intensity of the relationship of political and managerial
processes in social systems under dierent modes of their life (functioning,
development and decline) and on this basis.
The imperatives in the activities of the subjects of these processes;
identify methodological dierences in the goal-setting of the subjects of
political processes and governance in the context of non-linear development
of social systems, as well as the main objectives of these actors in these
conditions to ensure the security of these systems; to reveal the impact of
changes in the political system on the evolution of the relationship between
political processes and public administration; to separate in the structure
of the system of public administration and administration the political and
administrative blocks and the content of the functional tasks assigned to
them.
1. Materials and methods
The complexity and specicity of the study of factors determining the
relationship of political processes with public administration in the context
of ensuring the safety of social systems have led to using interdisciplinary
and systems approaches, as well as a number of general and special
methods used insociology, political science,theories of public management
and administration, as well as in the eld of knowledge: «military sciences,
national security, state border security».
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Each of them in the process of analytical analysis of scientic works
allowed tohighlight the problem in a certain perspective.At the same
time, the dialectical method of cognition was taken as a basis, namely the
research was conducted inductively (by collecting and analyzing qualitative
data) and deductively (through generalization of theoretical issues based
on a systematic approach). This led to the appropriate stages of work and
the choice of methods and techniques for obtaining new scientic results.
At the rst stage of the research the bibliographicmethod and content
analysis were used. They have identied a number of primary sources
that analyze the factors determining certain aspects of the relationship
of political processes with public management and administration in
the context of social systems. At the same stage, cognitive mapping was
used to study concepts and categories in the eld of political and public
management and administration and establish cause and eect between
them.
The second stage used structural-functional and systemic methods for
revealing the nature, role, structure, dynamics and direction of interaction
of political processes and public management and administration in the
context of the interests of the individual (human), social groups and state
institutions. social system)and the subject of study(politicalandmanagerial
processes in the social system) in their unity and integrity.
The same methods were used for clarifying the nature and characteristics
of the interdependence between the political and administrative components
of public administration and administration as a holistic, integrated social
phenomenon resulting from legal, organizational, informational, political,
socio-economic and other processes that determine modes (stages)of life of
social systems (functioning, development, decline).
At the same time, the systematic approach allowed us to imagine
the interaction of political processes, public administration, the process
of ensuring the safety of social systems as a system with its own logic
and dynamics of development, a system where each element interacts
functionally ensures its existence. For example, at all levels of government,
state institutions can simultaneously act as: the initiator of the problem;
its implementer (through legislative activity); executor (organizational
and administrative activities), and the functional relationship of these
institutions indicates the general interdependence of their actions in the
context of national security. Structural-functional and systemic methods
were also used to identify the peculiarities of making and implementing
political and managerial decisions in these regimes.
At the same stage of the study, the use of comparative-historical and
comparative-political methods revealed common features of the inuence
of political processes on the formation of public administration and
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administration in the modern era, as well as identify factors that determine
major trends in the interaction of political actors. systems in the context of
ensuring the safety of social systems.
The comparative method allowed to single out the factors that hinder
the formation of a democratic system of public administration in Ukraine in
modern conditions. At the third stage the abstract-logical method was used
to generalize the processed materials in order to formulate conclusions
and recommendations based on the results of the study. At the same time,
analyzing the relevant scientic literature and political processes taking
place in our country and the world, as well as initiated socio-political
reforms in Ukraine, the authors realize that quantifying the impact of
these processes and reforms on the safety of social systems requires some
sociological research.
2. Results and discussion
The system of public administration implies a set ofpublic administration
and local governmentexerting an organizational inuence on public
relations throughimplementing management functions within a certain
competence on the basis of legislation, as well as the relationship between
these bodies (Kuibida et al., 2018). One of the factors of inuence are the
consequences of political processes, the genesis of which is determined
by the evolution of the political system. Therefore, the disclosure of the
essence of the relationship of these processes with public administration
and administration involves the analysis of the conceptual framework of
their interaction.
As you know, theessence of any interaction is the reverse eect of one
object on another, their mutual conditionality, i.e. the generation of one
object of the future state of another. In political science and knowledge,
«public administration» is often used. It is usually used for determining
the form of communication between people (individuals) and social
communities, when, for example, their intentions are realized and consensus
is reached in terms of their joint actions and understanding of the situation.
Therefore, in the political area and in this eld of knowledge, the essence
of this interaction should be revealed through a systematic analysis of a set
of interconnected and interdependent political and managerial phenomena
resulting from the activities of policy and management actors aimed at
realizing their intentions. Thus, in the study of «political process» and
«management process» should be considered as complex in structure,
content and form phenomena of social systems.
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On the other hand, the basis of the functioning of any political system is
the interaction of political actors. Therefore, the «political process» and the
«political system» as phenomena are also closely interrelated. Therefore,
the political process, the main content of which is determined by the
totality and direction of social interactions of political actors evolves with
the political system, ie depends on the factors that determine this system.
This interaction can be manifested through the activities of: political
institutions (formal form) or individuals or social groups (informal form).
It is fundamentally important that individual and group subjects of the
political process take part in it taking into account the conditions of the
social environment.
These conditions create a social context of political interactions in which
the inuence of man (individual) and social groups on public policy and
public administration, and therefore there is a reverse eect of governance
on politics. Obviously, the eectiveness and eciency of interaction
between the subjects of the political process, if assessed in the context of
achieving their intentions will depend on many factors: power and nancial
capabilities of these entities, the quality of legal mechanisms of interaction
and so on (Zlyvko et al., 2021).
Therefore, the political process accumulates, in particular, the
consequences of the genesis of political institutions and political relations
between them. It is also important that political processes involve dierent
ways of involving the social strata in relations with public authorities,
including those that are important in national decision-making and those
that do not aect the exercise of state power, such as the dynamics of
political parties.
In general, the content of the political process depends on many factors,
including the level of political culture, models that reect the general idea
of world processes, the priorities of the elite in the political sphere. It should
also be noted that political processes can take place explicitly or implicitly.
In the rst case, the interests of individuals and social groups are
manifested in their public claims to public authorities, and in the second
- at the heart of the political process is the activities of publicly registered
political institutions and centers of power, citizens’ demands that are not
ocially expressed. Ultimately, political processes are due to the need of
their subjects to inuence management decisions madeby institutions of
state power.
These institutions are the main tools for taking into account these
requirements and developing strategic goals for socio-politicaldevelopment.
Therefore, the degree of centralization and decentralization of power and
the distribution of powers between social groups depend on the results of
their activities.
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At the heart of any social system can be divided into two main trends:
functioning as a support of life, preservation of functions that determine the
integrity, quality and content of the system and development, as a process
of permanent and irreversible change of the system to acquire new quality,
which has a signicant character, a certain form and positive consequences
for its viability. Functioning hinders development, but at the same time is
its prerequisite. Development destroys certain processes of functioning,
creates instability in the system, but creates conditions for their more
sustainable implementation in the future. Therefore, there is a tendency for
crisis situations both in the political process and in public administration.
It is the result of the accumulation of contradictions within the regime
of «functioning» and the need to move to the regime of «development».
Since the preservation or change of the social system involves the denition
of certain goals, it is important to clarify the content of the political process
and public administration related to ensuring the viability of this system in
the mode of «functioning» and in the mode of «development».
In the operating mode, a relatively stable state in the system is
characteristic. Traditions, established norms, procedures, etc. usually
dominate attempts to make innovative changes in the political system and
the system of public administration. Therefore, political and administrative
processes in this regime are dominated by relations that are periodically
repeated according to standard procedures, such as between the pro-
government elite, political parties, local governments.
This leads to the dominance of the methods and technologies typical of
public administration in the activities of management entities. As shown
in (Sytnyk, 2019), it is fundamentally important for the functioning of
the social system in a stable state is the preservation of its functions, the
implementation of which ensures its integrity, qualitative certainty and
meaningful features.
This circumstance determines the main motives and goals of the system
of public administration and society, and hence the choice of mechanisms
for their implementation, which determines the imperative in the activities
of the subjects of this system: executive and administrative activities. It has
regulated functions aimed at implementing current legislation through the
adoption and implementation of appropriate administrative decisions and
the provision of administrative services. The main methods of performing
functions are organizational-stabilizing, administrative, disciplinary, ie -
administrative methods.
Therefore, in this case we can talk about public administration as a social
function in the social system, aimed at ensuring the eective functioning
of the system in its stable state. The components of the functions are:
forecasting and planning, i.e. nding the optimum action plan of the
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subjects of management to ensure the stability of the system in «normal»
conditions; coordination and regulation – coordinating social processes
inimplementing tasks dened in the context of ensuring the sustainability
of the system; exercising control over the activities of public management
bodies in relation to their inuence on the course of processes in the social
system.
Based on the mentioned above, we conclude that public administration
hinders the acquisition of new qualitative and quantitative characteristics
of the social system, but is a condition for its existence and further
development. This circumstance explains why administration is considered
as a lower level in relation to management and leadership (higher level of
management).
Therefore, it is surprising that some scholars claim that at the present
stage of development the role of the state and government is to gradually
move from public administration to public administration (Bozhko, 2019).
At the same time, they claim (and, not without reason) that «Bureaucracy
demonstrates its eectiveness in routine matters…, but their willingness to
act more: exibly in the face of new economic and social challenges remains
a signicant problem» (Bozhko, 2019: 40).
The development of the social system is due to the complex inuence
of various factors. It generates a state of instability in it, which destroys
the established processes of its functioning, but at the same time creates
conditions for more sustainable and high-quality implementation in the
future. Therefore, the objective reality is the emergence of a crisis situation
of a social nature, as a turning point in the life of the social system. It is
characterized by the aggravation of political, social and other contradictions
in the system and requires the adoption of adequate decisions by the
subjects of the political and managerial process.
For performing functions specic topolitical and public administration,
must be taken into account. Therefore, the dierences in the methodological
basis of strategic planning, which is carried out by the subjects of political
processes and management at the stage of instability of the social system
(mode - «development») and in its stable state («functioning regime»)
deserve special attention.
Peculiarities of planning in the conditions of instability of the social
system are, rst of all, a high degree of uncertainty in the conditions in which
political and managerial decisions are made. Therefore, the probability of
making an inadequate decision-making situation increases. There is also
considerable variability in the ability of actors to choose policy alternatives,
which necessitates their focus on the quality of strategic analysis and
synthesis, the application of systemic and situational approaches, the use
of political and strategic forecasting. It is also important that the issues
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of ensuring national security, ranging from ensuring human rights and
freedoms to protecting territorial integrity and state sovereignty, become
signicantly more dicult.
At the same time, there is an interdependence between the development
of the social system and its security. For example, the lack of progressive
development of the political system can lead to political destabilization,
socio-political tensions, etc. and, conversely, security is a prerequisite for
the development of this system. There are also dierences in the goal-setting
of the subjects of management in the strategic planning of the development
of social systems and ensuring their security.
To set a goal for the security process, it is important to identify the
factors that cause hazards, and when planning the development of the
system - objectively existing needs for its development (Orel, 2019). At the
same time, the presence of goals aimed at the development of the system is
of fundamental importance, as it is obvious that their absence transforms
public administration into public administration, the purpose of which is to
maintain it in «working order».
The peculiarity of goal-setting of subjects of management at the stage
of existence of the system, which is characterized by instability of social
processes that take place in it, determines signicant features of the
content and mechanisms of other management functions: organization,
coordination, motivation, control.
In particular, an important role in the formation and implementation of
these goals belongs to the leaders, they have strategic thinking and vision of
the optimal direction of the system. Therefore, public administration in the
conditions of instability of the social system involves taking into account
political, economic and other social processes, interaction with civil society
institutions and international actors, involving society in solving important
security problems.
Thus, the course of political and managerial processes in the conditions
of stability and instability of the social system have signicant dierences
that determine the nature, features and intensity of the relationship of
these processes. This explains to some extent why the current period
of development of management theory is characterized by attempts to
create an integrated concept of crisis and why existing crisis management
strategies, suggest that the crisis must identify certain stages and identify
appropriate management tasks to resolve it (Porriev, 2007).
Prominent representative of postmodernism U. Beck trying to
comprehend the fact why in modern conditions of civilization these
strategies have become ineective guratively christened modernity as a
«crisis society» (Risk Society..., 2019) were among the rst to emphasize
that features and causes of crisis situations of a social nature are, in
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particular: the growing role of mass communications in the process of
crisis development; increasing the role of new political and managerial
technologies in generating crisis situations while reducing the capacity of
state institutions to resolve them; forming new forms of crises due to a
combination of crisis elements and their transformation (Painter-Morland,
2013; Skakalska and Semenets-Orlova, 2019).
These circumstances include developing and implementing ofnon-
standardpolitical and managerial decisions to ensure thesecurity of social
systems.
This should be taken into account when determining the priorities of
the subjects of political and administrative processes, especially when there
is a possibility of rapid, non-linear transition of the social system to another
state. However, this transition always presupposes the objective need for a
radical change in the content and form of the social system, and hence the
activities of the subjects of political and administrative processes.
The peculiarity of these processes in crisis situations is, in particular,
the high level of uncertainty and low predictabilityoftransforming the crisis
situation into an emergency (social explosion, riots, etc.). Therefore, it is
important to distinguish between two groups of goals of these entities. The
rst is due to the need to manage the likelihood of a crisis situation, and the
second - the level of protection of man (individual), society and institutions
of the state.
As for the peculiarity of the existence of social systems in decline, in
these conditions it often disintegrates, because political or managerial
decisions are usually ineective in regulating social relations, i.e. declared
or implemented changes do not ensure the integrity of systems and its
proper functioning, which indicates the need for a radical overhaul of the
system.
The described features of the existence of social systems in the mode of
functioning and development also allow us to conclude that a systematic
approach is needed in the study of the relationship between political and
managerial processes. At the same time, attention should be focused
on understanding the needs of man (individual), social groups, state
institutions and identifying factors that take into account these needs,
including internal and external actors, possible directions and ways to
interact with them.
Indeed, since the social system is both a whole and a component of a
larger system, in it the individual is both a whole system formation and an
element of the system that serves as the environment of his existence. In
social systems, the boundaries between its elements are determined by the
characteristics of their identity. They determine the dierence between the
elements from each other.
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Therefore, in social systems there is a constant conict between the
elements for which the priority is to ensure the integrity (goals) of the
system and those that give priority to autonomy. Because of this, the system
simultaneously processes the convergence of the goals of its elements
and the formation of relationships between them (cooperation) and the
processes that lead to their weakening (rivalry). It is obvious that in the
processes dominated by the struggle for power and for its maintenance,
there are always elements of cooperation and rivalry.
This determines the importance of thorough analysis in ensuring the
security of the system of qualitative and quantitative composition of the
subjects of political processes that favor cooperation or competition (Kosach
et al., 2022). Thus, the evolution of the relationship between political and
managerial processes should be considered in the context of changes in the
existence of social systems.
These changes are usually the result of compromises between the
subjects of the political process or the victory of a particular political
force, and the objects and forms of realization of their intentions can be
public authorities, NGOs, political and legal norms, business management
systems, etc. Within the framework of the political process, they carry
out other measures aimed at ensuring the development of society and its
manageability.
Therefore, these entities determine the principles of formation of
structures of public administration and administration systems, the
relationship of its elements at all hierarchical levels, their powers and
responsibilities. At the same time, changes in the political process generate
dierent in nature, scale and direction of action of political actors. However,
the principle for them is always the choice of technologies for the exercise of
power and the adoption of regulations that guarantee the realization of their
interests by government agencies, ie the system of public administration
and administration.
The above also allows us to conclude that the organizational and functional
structure of the system of public administration and administration is
formed by the subjects of political and administrative components. The
main functions of the former are the development and adoption of political
decisions, justication of public policy, organization of public discussion
and communication with the public and more.
The main function of the subjects of the administrative component is
the implementation of political decisions, which is implemented in the
administrative process. This activity is related to theimplementating
directive functions for the management of certain objects of management,
regulated by regulations and provided by relevant administrative documents
issued by governing bodies, institutions and organizations (Sytnyk, 2019).
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Unfortunately, in Ukraine the organizational and legal basis for the
formation of political and administrative components of the system of public
administration and administration, as well as the organization of their
interaction often change. This negatively aects the eectiveness of their
activities and interaction. In general, Ukraine has not solved the problem of
nding the optimal balance in the formation of political and administrative
components of the system of public administration. One of the reasons is
the fascination with Western political and managerial approaches.
However, for example, the implementation of the priority of neutrality
of public administration as a way of separating political and administrative
positions may, in the absence of adequate institutional control, lead to the
strengthening of political leadership, rather than limiting it. There may also
be negative consequences of pressure from external forces seeking their
benets in Ukraine, which creates serious problems for modernizing of
national models of political and public governance.For example, introducing
new management procedures and practices in the new EU member states is
accompanied by strong pressure from its institutions.
In view of this, we cannot agree with those who claim that a promising
model of public administration for Ukraine is “the network management
model, according to which the eorts of public authorities should be aimed
at coordinating the actions of various public actors. interacts with the
creation of hybrid and mobile networks, which combine state, non-state,
national and global elements» (Bilynska and Petroie, 2019: 41). Obviously,
the involvementofnon-state(non-national)and global elementsinforming
the system of public management andadministration in Ukraine is a real
threat to national security, especially given the institutional weakness of
this system, which is a reality today.
Conclusions
Theinstitutional imbalance of political and administrativecomponents
of the system of public administrationalways negatively aects its
eectiveness and eciency, and thus the security of individuals, social
groups and state institutions. Therefore, it still remains a priority to ensure
the balance between thesecomponents,taking into account the potential
of the Western political and managerial approachesadaptedto national
realities to address it.
1. Political and managerial processes in social systems and their
relationship should be considered in content and form as phenomena
of life of these systems. Thus the analysis of pecularities and intensity of
the specied interrelation and functional tasks of subjects of policy and
management it is expedient to carry out in the context of modes (stages)
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of existence of systems and their safety. Thus, dominant, for the subjects
mentioned is, in particular, preserving the functions determining the
qualitative certainty and content of the social system, and the mode of
«development» (unstable state) - supporting the process of permanent
change in the system, for it to acquire a new quality.
2. The interdependence between the development of the social system
and the security of its life causes methodological dierences in the
goals of political processes and management, rather than the linearity
of the dynamics of crisis situations, determines the peculiarities of its
transformation, which creates two groups of goalsthe likelihood of a crisis
situation and the management of the level of protection of man, society and
state institutions, so the evolution of the relationship between political and
managerial processes should be considered in the context of social security
and changes in the political system and public administrationa systematic
approach to identifying and assessing the factors that inuence and the
likelihood of a crisis situation and national security.
3. The evolution of the relationship between political and managerial
processes should be considered in the context of changes in the political
system. At the same time, the organizational and functional structure of
the system of public administration and administration always contains
political and administrative blocks. The rst of them is the creator of public
policy, and the second is responsible for outlining ways to achieve the goals
of this policy and manages the resources needed for this. Therefore, the
institutional and functional imbalance between these blocs has a negative
impact on the eectiveness of the relationship between political and
managerial processes in social systems, and thus on ensuring the security
of their lives.
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