PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION AS THE FIELD OF SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITY: SOCIAL AND LEGAL ASPECTS

The national model of administrative and legal regulation of public relations occupies the stage of reform in accordance with generally accepted international standards and represents the field of scientific activity. The state represented by authorized entities should implement policy and specific measures aimed at creating favourable conditions for scientific activity, including proper material support of scientists and transparent financing procedures.The aim of the study was to explore the state of legal and institutional regulation of public relations in the field of scientific activity by determining the tendency of transformation the concept of “state governance” in “public administration”; to highlight the scientific activity as an object of public administration; to substantiate the influence of socio-economic factors on public administration in the field of scientific activity in Ukraine and to articulate specific recommendations for reforming the management mechanism applied in the field of scientific activity. Material and methods. Systematic analysis method, dialectical method, formal-logical method, structural-functional method and empirical methods were used in the study.Results. The study showed, there is no legal determination of the concept “field of science” in Ukraine. This concept means the scientific activity. Nowadays, the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine works both in the field of science and in the field of scientific activity, but they are not essentially different from 1991-2010 years, when the field of science was not singled out as an object of regulation of this authorized entity of public administration. Tendency to increase the role of public administration in the field of scientific activity occured due to a combination of public factors, including the low wage level of scientific and pedagogical employees. At the same time, the practical implementation of managerial influence on the field of scientific activity partially corresponds to the concept “state governance and regulation” due to the lack of proper legal status of scientific activity entities and the discrepancy between the implemented reforms in the field of science and the national archetypes of scientific activity.The findings may be useful for practitioners and theorists, whose activity with regard to public administration and scientific field is updated by the actualization of democratization tendency in governance.The subject of the study has been investigated for the first time in Ukraine and needs further investigation.