Public policy and public administration: development, structure and reciprocity

Public policy is a process about selecting strategies and making choices. Public policy making include some steps – getting of agenda, policy formulation, policy adoptions, policy implementation. It must be also evaluated to see the intended results, to revise existing and future public programs and projects. Public policy can be studied as producing three types of policies (distributive, regulatory and re-distributive) related with decision making process. Public administration is the set of processes, structures, functions, methods and procedures. Public administration is the formulation and particularly implementation of public policy and the examination of the strategies and choices associated with that process. Public administration also can be defined as public programs and projects, profession and as academic field of study. There is no clear separation between administration and politics in the development of government policy and public administration. Administrators engage in political acts by recommending legislation as much as by making policy decisions in carrying out the laws. The administrators understanding of managerial issues and policies places them in a position of substantial expertise, while their knowledge of administrative and legal procedures helps them by suggesting ways of managing and enforcing the laws. The most modern forms of governance, administrative innovations allow us to assume that legislative and implementing contents of institutional activity today acquires new specific features. Executive bureaucratic structures using expert-consultation services, get more and more possibilities to really influence not only the implementation of policy and the estimation of activities, but also to directly influence the preparation of public sector directions and strategy.Straipsnyje pateikiama šiuolaikinė viešosios politikos ir viešojo administravimo samprata ir aptariama viešosios politikos ir viešojo administravimo sąveika bei dabartinių socialinių pokyčių sąlygotos raidos tendencijos. Akcentuojama administravimo politinio konteksto, viešųjų projektų ir programų valdymo modernizavimo, demokratinių procesų plėtros svarba šiuolaikiniame viešajame administravime. Analizuojamos naujos valdymo ir administravimo sistemos bei modeliai, aptariami nauji iššūkiai vadybos ir administravimo filosofijai, viešosios politikos programų ir projektų rengėjams