Public Administration Efficiency: Different Approaches to Evaluation

Abstract

The aim of the study was to demonstrate the need to use a systematic approach to analyzing the effectiveness of state measures aimed at achieving specific results. A pragmatic approach in public administration requires reporting on costs that were result-oriented. However, not all types of state influence can clearly determine its effectiveness. At the same time, it is necessary to take into account the complexity of the evaluated categories and objects themselves, which causes the presence of multi-factoricity, variability of methods and models in the study.
On the example of youth policy, an analysis of the possibilities of using certain methods and interpreting the results was carried out. The author proposes a hypothesis about the positive impact of public spending on youth policy and Patriotic education of citizens on the share of NEET in the total number of young people. To interpret the significance of this influence, the methods of regression and correlation analysis of two-test verification were used. A positive result was obtained, but the theoretical and conceptual approaches to the study of the NEET phenomenon, the critical approach to the methods used, and the comparative analysis of statistical data cast doubt on this hypothesis.
Public administration is a systemic phenomenon with its own structures and laws. The effectiveness of some part of it must be carried out in the coordinate system of various methods and approaches to check the adequacy of the results obtained and their interpretation.