The figure of the expert in public administration

Abstract

This article is devoted to the complex research of the role and importance of an expert in public administration system. What determines the modern growth of the demand for experts for the public interest and for the public administration purposes? What is an expert? How do we identify an expert and what criteria should be used for this? The article is based on the use of studying methods of the systemic analysis, synthesis, induction. By using these methods the distinctive characteristics of the expert notion were discovered. Also, the determinants of the limitation of the possibilities for the development of the universal and comprehensive definition of this concept were discovered and presented.