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THE ORGANIC CONCEPT OF ADMINISTRATION

Summary/Abstract: The terminological and substantial complexity of the concept of „administration” derives, among other things, from the very nature of rational (scientific) methodology. This rational knowledge comprises a dualism which is manifested in the necessity of the particular construction of a „functional” and „structural” concept of the uniformly real phenomenon, respectively, the impossibility of the construction of the socalled „functional-structural” concept as a „pure” theoretical category. This dualism of rational conception is also manifested in the determination of the concept of „administration”. The functional concept defines the administration as an activity (a „function”), which is being performed; in the substantial (material) sense, it is defined as an „administrative function” i.e. the execution of authoritative activities in individual situations by the issuance of primary orders („administrative normative acts”) and the execution of material acts of coercion or restriction/limitation („administrative activities”). The organic concept (a separate aspect of the structural concept) defines the administration from the viewpoint of the factor executing the administrative duties i.e. from the viewpoint of the „executor of administration”. The organic concept of administration allows the construction of the theoretically „pure” category, since it incorporates all of the executors of the administrative functions (administrative bodies, other state/governmental bodies, non-governmental factors with special authority, etc.) into a united — „organic” — whole, on the basis of the substantial („technological”) uniformness of activities being performed, and the legal regime regulating that performance. Taking the „executor of administration”, being the factor performing the „administrative function”, as the starting point, the organic concept of administration eliminates all of the conceptual deficiencies and terminological ambiguities of other similar categories, such as „state administration”, „non-governmental administration”, „social administration” and, particularly, „public administration”.

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