Issue ? 47. December 2014

On Differences Between Public Administration Analysis and Public Administration as a Scientific Research Field

Alexey G. Barabashev — Ph.D., Professor, Head of Science, Institute of Public Administration and Municipal Management, Faculty of Social Sciences, Higher School of Economics — National Research University, Moscow, Russian Federation.
E-mail: abarabashev@hse.ru

Valeria V. Utkina — Senior Lecturer, Institute of Public Administration and Municipal Management, Faculty of Social Sciences, Higher School of Economics — National Research University, Moscow, Russian Federation.
E-mail: utkinavv@hse.ru

The article introduces the notion of public governance analytics as the set of instruments and results of public governance practice analysis, and of proposals for practice of governance improvement. Main requirements for analytics of public governance are defined. The notion of public governance as scientific research area, based on theories of public administration, new public management, public governance, and utilizing the instrumental methods of research, is also introduced. Three main groups of subject fields that are related to different theories and branches (public administration, public policy, public affairs) of public governance are defined.

Preliminary hypothesis about the sources of the differences between analytics of public governance and of public governance as a scientific research area, and why the results of analytics in the area of public governance are not recognized as scientific articles, is proposed. The preliminary hypothesis is specified by expert survey. The thesis about public governance as analytics-oriented applied scientific research area is verified.

Keywords

Public administration; public governance; object field of public governance; public policy analysis; instruments for public policy analysis.