Civilian control in public service practice: problems and prospects

Abstract

The article analyzes the problems and outlines the prospects of the development of civil control in the state public service. It is based on the analysis of documents, studies of the state management systems, specifics in the practice of the civil control in the process of a functioning public service. It identifies and examines the main function and specificity of civil control and its practice in the public service and looks at the identified barriers that arise during implementation. The conclusion is that the development of this practice can lead to positive as well as negative consequences. It is noted that the barriers encountered during the implementation of civil control, highlighted on the one hand, a high level of closeness within the public service and on the other, a reluctance to participate in external counterparties, and in some cases, their unconstructive, pragmatic utilitarian approach to this activity. The originality of the author’s conception is that civilian control is seen simultaneously as a socio-cultural and socio-technological problem. In socio-cultural terms it represents the process of accumulating and using the social capital of the population, representing a complex of human resources, the groups that are being formed and reproduced in the process of interaction with contractors on the basis of coherence values and norms of technologically complex procedures for ensuring the participation of civil society in the regulation of the HR processes. The enumeration and proposed specific technological solutions should be of interest to government agencies and civil society institutes in the process of developing the practice of civil control.