Ponkin I.V.

The article focuses on analyzing and generalizing the current negative (failed or defective) use and implementation of digital instruments in public administration, which is hazardous to the public’s interests and publicauthority’s reputation. According to the author,the current shortcomings of publicadministration’s digitalization do not negate the need for it,and having a solid grasp of the technology’s drawbacks,potential negative effects, applicability limitations, and related risks enables it to be used much more efficiently. The article outlines the author’s categorization of the factors contributing to the unfavorable experience of implementing and using digital technologies and possible solutions in public administration. The article presents the theoretical foundations for comprehending and interpreting the theory of intellectualized public administration as a method that considerably lowers the risks of errors, imbalances, and failures in the process of digitalization of public administration.

The article continues the author’s series on applied analytics in publicadministration and law.Due to the objectivelydetermined complexityof the subject-object areas of state regulation and publicadministration, as well as the resulting complexity of state regulation and administration itself, the author argues for the necessity of using situational analytics and situation centers in public administration.The paper presents the author’s concept for explaining the technology to achieve predictive situational awareness through describing a sequence of complex active cognitive actions: 1) visualization of the future; 2) scenarios of the future; 3) predictive situational-scenario modeling and predictive-projective representation of the future events in their diverse possible variations.The study provides a detailed description of the positions that represent the functional-target load of a situation analysis center.The author presents the theoretical basis for understanding and interpreting the theories of distributed cognition, distributed situational awareness, and distributed situation centers and shows their significance. The research is based on applying the research methods of analysis and synthesis, induction, deduction and abduction, generalization, classification and modeling, approximation,and formalization.After conducting the research,the author was able to uncover the meaning and fundamental descriptive qualities of situation analytics and evaluate its potential.

This article explores computational legal analytics - its concepts, features, and ontology. The author presents the terms ‘analytics’and ‘legal analytics’. The article focuses on explaining the importance of computational legal analytics (as a segment of digital technologies brought into the professional legal activity) for professional legal activity and the legal field as a whole. The author clarifies the determinants of the need for the emergence and development of computational legal analytics and its value for the legal activities of actors (subjects). The paper presents the author’s definitions for «legal analytics» and «cognitive computing» concepts. Computational legal analytics is based on well-known, well-established, and actively used (at least already being tested) technologies. Such technologies include intellectualized legal search technologies, cognitive computing technologies, natural language computer processing technologies, machine learning technologies (including deep learning), big data processing, and machine-readable law technologies. The author specifies and explains the technologies and possibilities of machine legal analytics, realized by cognitive and other operational capabilities of computer-software complexes, including using artificial intelligence. While preparing the article, the author used research methods of analysis and synthesis, induction, deduction and abduction, classification and modeling, approximation, and formalization. Using these research methods, the author uncovered the essential descriptive characteristics of the phenomenon and concept of machine legal analytics and assessed its prospects.

The article studies the phenomenon and concept of the digital state. The author reveals the general concept and importance of digitalization in public administration. The article explains the problems of relevant interpretation and the limits of applicability of the concept to the system of public administration. The author considers methods, approaches, and prospects for improving the efficiency of public administration in the context of the digitalization of society and puts forward his concept for the term “digital government”. Using methods of analysis and synthesis, induction, deduction and abduction, classification, and formalization, the work reveals the essential descriptive characteristics of the phenomenon and concept of the digital state. After the data analysis, it is proposed to consider the concept of digital state in four interpretative definitions: as an ecosystem of multiservice and proactive state digital services; as an integrated computer and software meta-platform; as an organizational and technological approach and corresponding paradigm; and as a digital ontology of state-building and functioning, public administration and public policy. According to the author’s interpretation, the concept of the “digital state” includes: “digital government”, “digital democracy”, “digital justice”, “digital electoral technologies”, “digital public control of public administration”.

The article is devoted to the study of the principles of the possibilities of applying BIM-technologies in law. The authors explain the concept and meaning of BIM modeling in general, noting that the BIM method, originally developed for information and functional modeling of buildings (in the construction sector), is now actively used (in significantly more complex modalities) in a variety of other areas. The article presents the author’s concept explaining the essence of the technology of the digital models-doubles (BIM). The work is based on the use of research methods of analysis and synthesis, induction and deduction, classification and modeling, observation. Using these methods, the distinction characteristics were described and the features of the method of digital models-doubles (BIM) in legal science and practice, its goals and the possibility of its application were predicted. The need for the development of universal platforms and the creation of universal prototypes, templates, formats, matrices and sets of tools, including concepts, methods and tools for processing, archiving, saving and storing data, is noted. The authors set out in detail (in the author’s concept) the possibilities, goals, methods and features of applying the method of digital models-doubles (BIM) in law.

The article is devoted to the study of the phenomenon and the concept of homeostasis of the system of public administration. The author describes the general concept of «homeostasis». The article shows the history of the genesis of the homeostasis concept. The author explains the problems of the relevant interpretation and the limits of applicability of this concept to the system of public administration. The author's definition of the concept of homeostasis of the system of public administration is presented. The article describes the properties of the public administration system that determine its ability to maintain its homeostasis. The article is based on the application of research methods of system analysis, synthesis, induction, abduction, classification. Through the application of research methods, the author uncovered the characteristics of the concept of the homeostasis phenomenon of the public administration system and the possibility of applying this concept in the theory of public administration. Maintaining the homeostasis of the public administration system is very important for the purposes and process of public administration. It is imperatives and intentions of retention of the homeostasis of the system of state administration that are the grounds, conditions, and reasons for the prevention of precocious, unreasonable (with calculated risks and consequences), and questionable reforms in public administration.

The article is devoted to the study of the principles of process-oriented public administration. The problems of the relevant interpretation and the possibilities of their applicability in the framework of the system of public administration are shown. The author's definition of the concept of process-oriented state management is presented in the article. The differences between process-oriented, project-oriented and functionally-oriented types of administration are shown. The work is based on the use of the research methods of the systemic analysis, synthesis and induction. The distinctive characteristics of the process-oriented public administration notion were described with the help of these methods, as well as the determinants of the limitation of the possibilities of the use of this concept were also shown. The process-oriented approach to the management of public sector organizations is an effective transformation of the queries to the results in the form of the provision of quality services to citizens. Such transformation occurs by performing interrelated activities that have a purpose and a certain degree of their importance. Accordingly, each such organization strives to provide a synergistic course of individual processes, which are indispensable for the achievement of certain results. To improve the efficiency of process-oriented public administration it is necessary to give an exact definition of the particular subjects responsible for optimal functioning of one or another process. Properly organized processes allow to provide quality public services and promote efficiency of management. The principles of process-oriented management continue to be used in the framework of different approaches to the public administration.

The present article is devoted to a comprehensive research of the features of public (state / municipal) city management. The author gives a detailed description of the nature of the city and the essential characteristics of a major city, significant design aspects, organization and implementation of town public administration. The article highlights and provides some examples in describing uncertainty in the public administration of the city. The author’s detailed interpretation describes the main challenges of public management planning. In the presented article the author articulates the features of particular set of management tools for town public administration. The article is based on research methods of systems analysis, and comparative legal methods of synthesis_ Through the application of these methods there appears a revelation of distinctive city characteristics displaying the essential phenomena that are significantly important for the organization of public management. The author’s definition of «city», is described as a city of distinctive characteristics of these phenomena. According to the author’s definition, the city has - it’s natural as well as it’s technogenic and anthropogenic-cultural landscape and constructive order, characterized by the descriptive elements of regulatory, visual, social and other orders, systematically implemented and technogenically performed in a multi-level within a localized area, self-reproducing and self-sustaining itself relative to current and future expectancies concentrated within it’s vital activity of enhancing it’s inhabiting society.

The article investigates the negative conditions of the state and of public administration – a dysfunctional state and a failed state, its essential features. Author presents definitions of a dysfunctional state and of a failed state. The author researched total, local and particular dysfunction of the state, total failure and local failure of the state.

The article is devoted to a comparative understanding and interpretation of existing concepts of the so-called new public (state and municipal) administration. We discuss the concept of «good governance», which has steadily integrated into the lexicon of a wide range of members of the international community. The author's interpretations of «good governance» as a multidimensional concept are given. This concept is considered by the author in three notions: 1) the measure of the ideal in public administration, 2) the concept of design, formation, implementation and evaluation of public administration, 3) the control mechanisms. The necessity of a «new» public administration (or public administration, based on a new paradigm) is justified. The author describes the essential features of the «new» public administration, which is coming to replace the well-established, until recently, «traditional» model of public administration.

The article is devoted to the preparation of the XXVII World Summer Universiade from 6 to 17 July 2013 in the city of Kazan.

Статья посвящена изложению авторского концепта типологизации моделей светских и несветских государств.

Статья посвящена изложению авторский дефиниций ряда ключевых понятий в теме светскости государства.