scholarly journals DOCTRINAL DEFINITIONS OF THE CONCEPT OF "PUBLIC SERVICES"

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 19-25
Author(s):  
Ivanna Lutsiv ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Public Service ◽  
Public Services ◽  
Current State ◽  
Administrative Service ◽  
Legal Nature ◽  
Legitimate Interests ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Service State ◽  
To Receive

The article deals with the doctrinal approaches to the definition of "public services". The legal nature of the concept is determined and its definition is formulated. The author analyzes the current state of functioning of these services. The current legislation concerning the definition of "public service", "state service", and "administrative service" is investigated. The theoretical developments on the essence of the concepts "service", "public service", and "administrative service" are considered. Public services are a comprehensive and multifaceted phenomenon; they can be examined as welfare services, functions, legal relations, process, object of rights, market. Public services are considered as an activity performing a set of relationships that are implemented in the provision of public services. Public service is a mandatory law enforcement activity, legally established, which refers to the powers of the competent state executive bodies, aimed at exercising the rights or legitimate interests of the individual and legal entity that initiated it, financed from the relevant budget. The purpose of the doctrinal definition of the concept of "public services" will not be implemented effectively if the scientific study of key and related issues of the problem is not elaborated. Since the amendments to the legislation are significant and unquestionable, in the future it is advisable to establish the administrative and legal basis of public services that are not administrative, in the form of a special law. The content of the law shall include the concept of public services that can be formulated by distinguishing between types of publicly significant activities based on the mechanisms of organization of service provision; the composition of participants in legal relations; the recognition of the subjective public right of individuals to receive public services; principles of public services.

Public Service Motivation in Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Public Voices ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 67 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sharon Mastracci
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Public Service Motivation ◽  
Public Servants ◽  
Buffy The Vampire Slayer ◽  
The Public ◽  
American Popular Culture ◽  
Public Servant ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Individual

In this paper, the author examines public service as depicted in the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer (BtVS). First, she shows how slaying meets the economist’s definition of a public good, using the BtVS episode “Flooded” (6.04). Second, she discusses public service motivation (PSM) to determine whether or not Buffy, a public servant, operates from a public service ethic. Relying on established measures and evidence from shooting scripts and episode transcripts, the author concludes Buffy is a public servant motivated by a public service ethic. In this way, BtVS informs scholarship on public service by broadening the concept of PSM beyond the public sector; prompting one to wonder whether it is located in a sector, an occupation, or in the individual. These conclusions allow the author to situate Buffy alongside other idealized public servants in American popular culture.

scholarly journals Fostering public accountability in South Africa: A reflection on challenges and successes

2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Pandelani H. Munzhedzi
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Service Provision ◽  
Public Services ◽  
Public Accountability ◽  
The Public ◽  
Current State ◽  
Public Service Provision ◽  
The Republic ◽  
The Government

Accountability and oversight are constitutional requirements in all the spheres of government in the Republic of South Africa and their foundation is in the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa of 1996. All spheres of government are charged with the constitutional mandate of providing public services. The level of responsibility and public services provision also goes with the level of capacity of a particular sphere. However, most of the direct and visible services that the public receives are at the local sphere of government. As such, enormous resources are channelled towards this sphere of government so that the said public services could be provided. It is imperative that the three spheres of government account for the huge expenditures during the public service provision processes. The parliaments of national and provincial governments exercise oversight and accountability over their executives and administrations through the Public Accounts Committees, while the local sphere of government relies on the Municipal Public Accounts Committees. This article is theoretical in nature, and it seeks to explore the current state of public accountability in South Africa and to evaluate possible measures so as to enhance public accountability. The article argues that the current public accountability mechanisms are not efficient and effective. It is recommended that these mechanisms ought to be enhanced by inter alia capacitating the legislative bodies at national, provincial and local spheres of the government.

scholarly journals Innovative foundations for optimizing the information and communication system of local government

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (S4) ◽  
pp. 955-967
Author(s):  
Oleg A. Diegtiar ◽  
Тetyana A. Kravchenko ◽  
Olena L. Yevmieshkina ◽  
Tetiana V. Sych ◽  
Yana M. Linetska
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Communication System ◽  
Service Provision ◽  
Public Services ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Information Support ◽  
Innovative Methods ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Definition Of

The article is devoted to the study of innovative methods of optimizing the information and communication system of the local government of Ukraine in the changing conditions of nowadays. The main problem of the article is due to the need to eliminate the inconsistency of the modern unsatisfactory state of development of information support for the provision of public services by local self-government bodies of the territories of Ukraine with the requirements of Ukrainian society and the standards of European developed countries. The definition of the category “innovative municipal administration” has been clarified. Specific features of public service provision are defined according to four criteria (“service provision,” “restrictions,” “service concentration,” “monopoly of services”), which disclose their essence and main areas of improvement. The author's definition of the category “public service” is given. It was found that effective servicing of the needs of civil society and economic entities is impossible without the involvement of information systems and technologies and requires the implementation of systematic information support for the management and service activities of local self-government bodies. An innovative information and communication system has been formed to ensure the activities of local self-government bodies in the provision of public services.

scholarly journals The role of mental revolution training on the improvement of civil servant professionalism in public services in DKI Jakarta Provincial Government

1970 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 30-38
Author(s):  
Budi Sukmajadi
Keyword(s):  
Public Service ◽  
Public Services ◽  
Civil Servant ◽  
Provincial Government ◽  
Public Servants ◽  
Training Material ◽  
Government Regulations ◽  
Employee Discipline ◽  
Administrative Service

The responsibility of State Civil Servant (ASN) has been clearly stated in the ASN Law. Furthermore, it is also regulated in Government Regulations concerning Employee Discipline. Nonetheless, there is still negative stigma in the implementation and the community judgement, such as laziness in work, money orientation in completing administrative service tasks, misunderstanding of the main duties and functions of the employees, breaking the regulation and looking for shortcuts to achieve goals in gaining positions and even worse, performing corruption. This paper discusses the idea of the role of mental revolution training to become more productive and professional ASN. The mental revolution training is a concrete step in shaping the mental of professional public servants. The subjects of public service mental revolution training material refers to how an ASN should have perspective, way of thinking and working thus that it is likely expected that the training could improve the professionalism of ASN as public servants.

How Do We Prevent Families From “Closing the Door” When Caring for Patients With Alzheimer's Disease?

1996 ◽  
Vol 8 (S1) ◽  
pp. 137-139 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margareta Grafström
Keyword(s):  
Public Service ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Care Environment ◽  
Housing Service ◽  
Care For The Elderly ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Right ◽  
To Receive ◽  
Good Standard

The general aims for the care of the elderly in Sweden are to ensure financial security, good housing, service, and care for the elderly. In this regard, two pieces of recent legislation apply: the Social Service Act of 1982 and the Health and Medical Services Act of 1983. The 1982 act emphasizes the right of the individual to receive public service and help at all stages of life; the 1983 act is intended to maintain a good standard of health and to provide care on equal terms for all. In summary, both laws emphasize that help is to be given to everyone who needs help to support himself or herself in everyday needs. Further, this help should be given in as normal a setting as possible. This means that society should help the elderly to remain in their homes for as long as possible, and that the integrity and autonomy of the elderly should be preserved in the home-care environment.

scholarly journals ETHICAL NORMSIN THE ACTIVITIES OF PUBLIC SERVICE ENTITIES

2021 ◽  
Vol 117 (4) ◽  
pp. 120-131
Author(s):  
VESELOV Mykola ◽  
YEPRYNTSEV Pylyp
Keyword(s):  
Public Service ◽  
Ethical Behavior ◽  
Code Of Ethics ◽  
Codes Of Ethics ◽  
Ethical Conduct ◽  
The Public ◽  
General Scientific ◽  
Scientific Results ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
To Receive

Background. The choice of the topic of the article is dictated by the presence of significant theoretical problems and the need to improve the understanding and legal definition of the principle and rules of ethical behaviorin the activities of public service entities in Ukraine. The aim of the article is to obtain new scientific results in the form of substantiated conclusions and proposals for solving current theoretical, applied and legal problems of determining the principle and rules of ethical behaviorin the activities of public service entities in Ukraine. Materials and methods. The empirical basis of the study were legal acts of legislation of Ukraine and some other countries, scientific works of other scholars in the field of administrative law. Thanks to a combination of general scientific and special methods of cognition it was possible to process the specified empirical material and to receive own scientific conclusions. Results. It is noted that there is no clear definition and common understanding of the concept of the principle of ethical conduct of public service entities in the Ukrainian legislation. It is stated that the normative consolidation of ethical norms for different categories of public service entities in Ukraine takes place mainly at the by-law level and has a sectoral nature. It is established that the terms «principle of ethical conduct» and «rules of ethical conduct» are interdependent concepts, but not identical. Conclusion. According to the results of the research, the author’s vision is given to the concepts of «principle of ethical behavior» and «rules of ethical behavior». It is emphasized that the provisions of the Codes of Ethics or the Code of Ethics should also include requirements that would regulate the conduct of the public service entity in the off-hours. The necessity of unification of basic principles of public service in profile laws is substantiated, which should be reflected in general provisions of branch Rules and Codes of ethics together with special norms which will embody specificity of this or that public activity. Keywords: public service, the subject of public service, principles of activity, ethical behavior, rules, norms.

scholarly journals Means to support the object traces in the conceptual modeling systems

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (4.5) ◽  
pp. 601
Author(s):  
L. Yu. Ismailova ◽  
S. V. Kosikov ◽  
V. E. Wolfengagen ◽  
J. V. Mazurova
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Modeling ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Intensional Logic ◽  
Current State ◽  
Modeling Systems ◽  
History Of ◽  
Combination Of Methods ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Computational Systems ◽  
To Receive

The paper considers the problem of conceptual modeling of the domains, in which a large number of changes takes place, possesses a number of specific features. Some of the features are connected to the nature of the ongoing changes. The problem becomes severe when the domain contains a large quantity of independently acting agents that can produce changes in various parts of the model, the sets of interrelated data being changed by different agents independently.Besides that, when supporting the dynamic nature models the possibilities of future changes in model objects might largely be deter- mined not only by their current state, but also by the past state - history of the objects in the model. The support to such history inside the current state of the object can be difficult, cumbersome or impractical for other reasons, which also stimulates the search for new ap- proaches to ensure the map of the changes of objects in the domain model.It is offered to receive the decision by single out the individual information identities, that can be called state trajectories from the con- ceptual point of view and object traces from the implementation point of view. They represent a sequence of changes in the state of mod- el objects essential for its support. The traces can fix not all changes of the corresponding objects, but only those which have an influence on the further behavior of the model. Various ways of supporting of traces are considered. The paper presents an approach to the deter- mination and the support to the traces, based on using a combination of methods of the intensional logic and applicative computational systems. 

scholarly journals S. S. Alexeyev on Law and Human Rights in the Era of Drastic Changes

2019 ◽  
pp. 216-223
Author(s):  
Oleg Shipitsyn
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
The Political ◽  
Legal Regime ◽  
Historical Method ◽  
Legal Nature ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Legitimate Interests ◽  
Legal Position ◽  
Soviet Russia ◽  
The Individual

The author reviews S. S. Alexeyev’s scholarly views concerning the relations between the individual and the Soviet state from the power and submission perspective, and also assurance of individual’s and citizen’s rights and legitimate interests. Taking into account that the state’s key functions are exercise of power and governance in the society, i.e. making an impact on the society in a certain way to achieve specific results, the purpose of the intended research is identifying the relation between the legal impact made by the state and the individual’s legal position in such a state and a society, as well as assessing the actual assurance of human rights and freedoms. To achieve the established goal, systemic and historical method of legal research were applied. The research findings demonstrate that the political and legal regime implemented in the Soviet Russia did not achieve the originally declared goals, while the actual legal conditions under which Soviet citizens had to exist only suppressed and infringed upon the individual, whose rights and freedom had no actual assurance. It is argued that transformations of political and legal nature in the last decade of the 20th century are a legitimate consequence of the preceding events, since it is the law that makes human freedom real and assured.

The concept and features of customs and service relations

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Kolisnyk
Keyword(s):  
Public Administration ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
Main Body ◽  
Body Development ◽  
Service Activities ◽  
New Type ◽  
Legitimate Interests ◽  
Service State

Problem setting. In the article the authors analyse сustoms legal relations as one of the types of legal relations which have exclusive value in the field of implementation of public administration by customs bodies and observance of legality in our state. And although this type of legal relationship is only at the stage of formation and development, the study of this issue is becoming increasingly important, as in many developed countries «a service state» has already been formed, and it is one of the indicators of economic development of such a country. Target of research. The purpose of the study is analysis and study of such a special type of customs relations as customs and service relations, highlighting their main features. Analysis of recent researches and publications. The following scientists studied the issues of administrative and legal regulation of public service activities in Ukraine: Averyanov V. B., Kurylo V. I., Shopin I. M., Komzyuk A. T., Gaponyuk O. O., Zhuravel Y. V. and others. Article’s main body. Development of Ukraine as a service state involves the emergence of new types of legal relations. In particular, the emergence of customs and service relations is due to the fact that the customs policy of our country is going through processes of modernization and approximation to the standards of leading European countries. Customs policy is implemented by the system of executive authorities in accordance with sectoral competence, in exercising their powers, they should take into account that in the service state, the executive authorities must first ensure the implementation of the rights of citizens and representatives of foreign economic activity. At the same time, the direction of activity should change, as in the new type of state the customs authorities should provide not so much a control as a service function. Public service activities in the customs sphere are the activities of customs authorities in the field of public administration, related to the provision and realization of the rights, freedoms and legitimate interests of individuals, which is carried out by providing services to such persons. Customs and service relations are legal relations that arise in connection with the exercise of their powers by the customs authorities, in particular, when they provide services at the request of the consumer of service services, which are governed by customs legislation. Conclusions and prospects for the development. The issue of customs relations in general is not sufficiently studied in our country. This indicates the relevance and prospects of its study. In order to effectively implement and develop a service state, it is necessary to enshrine at the legislative level the concept of development of such a state. In this concept it is necessary to fix step by step, what reforms need to be carried out, what changes to introduce in the legislation, what institutes to implement and so on. This concept will help to create a truly service state in our country, focused on ensuring the rights and freedoms of individuals.

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