Public administration is also asocial phenomenon. Performing of public tasks is asocial activity. They may take the form of purposefully rational and valuably rational activities. Entrusting public tasks to non-public entities should be primarily seen as avaluably rational activity. Fundamental value is the public interest.
Crisis management is a specific area of public safety protection. Competent authorities in this area include on the one hand, Council of Ministers and on the other, territorial (local) authorities belonging both to local administration (voivodes) and local government (district governors and municipal executive officers/town mayors/city presidents). The territorial (local) authorities play a critical role here as they are a specific structure set up for crisis management.
The responsibility in question differs, according to the nature of a fulfilled function and held position. The broadest scope of responsibility is incurred by officials fulfilling functions of supreme organs of governmental administration (Prime Minister and members of the Council of Ministers). It is a constitutional responsibility (of penal-legal nature) before the Tribunal of State and a political responsibility before the Parliament. Officials fulfilling functions of central organs of governmental administration and holding other high positions (secretary and under-secretary of state, secretary to the Council of Ministers, Chief of the Chancellery of the Prime Minister), incur mainly political responsibility before their superiors and penal-legal liability before ordinary courts of law, e.g. for the breach of anti-corruption regulations, abuse of power and official misconduct.
Public administration is aspecial kind of organization. It functions in aspecific environment. Political parties, Churches and religious organizations are its particular elements. Public administration should perform public tasks taking into account public interest. Public administration should be ideologically and world-view neutral.
Public administration in the democratic state of law can be analyzed from two perspectives: legal-normative and socio-normative. According to the first perspective, public administration is an abstract impersonal model of the executive power, while according to the other – a social space or environment, in which social activities are undertaken by public officials. These two perspectives are not competitive but complementary.
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