HISTORICAL-COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE BUREAUCRACY AT THE MAIN STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT OF PUBLIC AUTHORITY

In the present article, the problem of public authoruty’s realization by means of bureaucracy was investigated. The task of searching for ways of debureaucratization of public authority (restrictions of negative manifestations, areas of work and functions of bureaucracy) might be accomplished with a...

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Main Author: I. V. Levakin
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description In the present article, the problem of public authoruty’s realization by means of bureaucracy was investigated. The task of searching for ways of debureaucratization of public authority (restrictions of negative manifestations, areas of work and functions of bureaucracy) might be accomplished with a historical and comparative methodology. The research helped to identify the presence of comparable elements of public authority and bureaucracy; to explain their comparable similarities and differences in a “vertical plane” – the phenomena of different time periods in indication the general tendencies of progress and causality were analyzed. The problem of public authority’s realization by means of bureaucracy was specifi ed according the materials of the researches of governance in ancient societies, early states, governmental machinery of bourgeois democracies. A special attention was given to an alternative Soviet power model that in practice had led to establishing a command and control system with a ruling “class” of nomenclature in our country. The general characteristics of public authority and bureaucracy in a post-Soviet society were identifi ed. The research found that the transformation of public authority in the new phase of global social and economic development might mean its functional involvement in the international system of national resources' exhausting according to the interest of increasingly internationalizing elites. It was agreed that bureaucracy and institutes of direct and representative democracy, self-governance and control of civil society over the government are direct competitors. Nevertheless, post-industrial society provides new opportunities for debureaucratization. Therefore, the active and volitional actions of political groups as entire segments of society that are aimed at the struggle for the constitutional guarantees for rights to get information, a real access to education and a meaningful democracy, as a connected consequence represent a diffi cult, but necessary way to debureaucratization of public authority.
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spelling doaj-art-2df8bd180b7b4438b33713545c25d13d2025-08-20T03:20:51ZengJurist, Publishing GroupСравнительная политика2221-32792412-49902020-05-0111315817310.24411/2221-3279-2020-10043737HISTORICAL-COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE BUREAUCRACY AT THE MAIN STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT OF PUBLIC AUTHORITYI. V. Levakin0MGIMO UniversityIn the present article, the problem of public authoruty’s realization by means of bureaucracy was investigated. The task of searching for ways of debureaucratization of public authority (restrictions of negative manifestations, areas of work and functions of bureaucracy) might be accomplished with a historical and comparative methodology. The research helped to identify the presence of comparable elements of public authority and bureaucracy; to explain their comparable similarities and differences in a “vertical plane” – the phenomena of different time periods in indication the general tendencies of progress and causality were analyzed. The problem of public authority’s realization by means of bureaucracy was specifi ed according the materials of the researches of governance in ancient societies, early states, governmental machinery of bourgeois democracies. A special attention was given to an alternative Soviet power model that in practice had led to establishing a command and control system with a ruling “class” of nomenclature in our country. The general characteristics of public authority and bureaucracy in a post-Soviet society were identifi ed. The research found that the transformation of public authority in the new phase of global social and economic development might mean its functional involvement in the international system of national resources' exhausting according to the interest of increasingly internationalizing elites. It was agreed that bureaucracy and institutes of direct and representative democracy, self-governance and control of civil society over the government are direct competitors. Nevertheless, post-industrial society provides new opportunities for debureaucratization. Therefore, the active and volitional actions of political groups as entire segments of society that are aimed at the struggle for the constitutional guarantees for rights to get information, a real access to education and a meaningful democracy, as a connected consequence represent a diffi cult, but necessary way to debureaucratization of public authority.https://www.sravpol.ru/jour/article/view/1164authoritygovernanceclass-based societybureaucracygovernmentcivil societyself-governancedebureaucratizationdemocracy
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HISTORICAL-COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE BUREAUCRACY AT THE MAIN STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT OF PUBLIC AUTHORITY
Сравнительная политика
authority
governance
class-based society
bureaucracy
government
civil society
self-governance
debureaucratization
democracy
title HISTORICAL-COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE BUREAUCRACY AT THE MAIN STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT OF PUBLIC AUTHORITY
title_full HISTORICAL-COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE BUREAUCRACY AT THE MAIN STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT OF PUBLIC AUTHORITY
title_fullStr HISTORICAL-COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE BUREAUCRACY AT THE MAIN STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT OF PUBLIC AUTHORITY
title_full_unstemmed HISTORICAL-COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE BUREAUCRACY AT THE MAIN STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT OF PUBLIC AUTHORITY
title_short HISTORICAL-COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE BUREAUCRACY AT THE MAIN STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT OF PUBLIC AUTHORITY
title_sort historical comparative analysis of the bureaucracy at the main stages of development of public authority
topic authority
governance
class-based society
bureaucracy
government
civil society
self-governance
debureaucratization
democracy
url https://www.sravpol.ru/jour/article/view/1164
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