Having clear ideas about the essence of relevant scientific concepts plays an important role in understanding the content of administrative and legal relations. Experience in the theoretical and legal scientific field, which specializes in the formation of fundamental doctrinal provisions, comes in handy. Core concepts of administrative law are those that express the foundations of state activity.

The purpose of the article is to study the theoretical and legal aspect and the formation of the term “state administration” to accurately reflect the content of state activity during the implementation of its functions, interaction with civil society, ensuring the rights and freedoms of a person and a citizen.

 In the course of the study, the transition in domestic law from the administrativecommand paradigm of the definition of the term “state administration” to meaningful emphasis on the interaction of civil society and a democratic, legal state was recorded. It was determined that the “classical” connotation of the word “administration” implies the power supremacy of one subject over another. Whereas in the latest definitions of state administration, the word “administration” is somewhat inconsistent with the content of state activity, which consists in ensuring rights and freedoms, coordinating interests, interacting with civil society, etc. It was determined that the linguistic characteristics of the word “administration” are correlated with the meaning of the term, which denotes the activity of the state aimed at the implementation of its functions in order to ensure the effective interaction of the state and civil society, the protection of the rights and freedoms of man and citizen. The kinship of the terms state administration and public administration has been established. The legal nature of the concept of state administration is outlined, its social direction is noted. It is noted that a democratic, legal state performs the functions of an administrator of processes sanctioned by civil society. At the same time, a democratic society as a social organization is a complex self-governing system that is constantly in motion and cannot exist without continuous administration. The legal nature of state administration is defined as the form and method of organizing the existence of a social system of the appropriate level of development (civil society in a democratic, legal state).

Based on the results of the research, the following definitions are proposed: state administration is the activity of the state, aimed at the implementation of its functions with the aim of ensuring sustainable development, effective interaction of the state and civil society, protection of human and citizen rights and freedoms; administrative law is a branch of law that regulates legal relations in the sphere of state administration with the aim of ensuring sustainable development, effective interaction of the state and civil society, protection of human and citizen rights and freedoms; the subject of administrative law is a set of legal relations that arise in the sphere of state administration. Among them: a) relations between the state and civil society in the sphere of state administration; b) relations regarding administrative services; c) relations regarding the responsibility of subjects of state administration, etc.

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