state apparatus - a system of agencies, organizations and institutions exercising public power to achieve the goals and objectives.Its activities are aimed at the development of mandatory rules of conduct, they are enshrined in the legal provisions, the use of legal relations, ensuring the effectiveness of sanctions and guarantees.
state apparatus and its symptoms
- formed to implement facing the state goals and objectives;
- creates legal provisions for mandatory execution;
- has a monopoly on gosprinuzhdenie;
- the basis for the formation and functioning of the state apparatus is a professional principle, that is, its staff carried out their powers on a professional basis, without engaging in other public benefit activities;
- to ensure the implementation of its functions include state agencies and "material appendages" that is, the police, army, military units, customs and others.
structure
functions of the state are enshrined in the constitution and other legislationthat its activities are guided by authorities and their officials, members of the state apparatus.The structure of the latter depends on the problems facing the state.It includes state bodies exercising regulatory functions to manage the affairs of the country;law relating to the maintenance of law and order and public security;foreign policy related to the relations with foreign countries.
formation of the state apparatus takes place through the formation of government, the activities of which include implementation of state functions.The most common ways - the election and appointment.A public authority is an independent structural unit of state power, endowed with authority.
Signs of a public authority:
- complex internal structure, as it consists of units and necessarily involves civil servants;
- funding is made from the state budget;
- performs public functions, including the coordination, regulatory and other forms of administrative activities in accordance with its competence;
- reporting to the state authorities to establish it.
state apparatus includes civil servants, ie persons in the civil service, which are aimed at ensuring the authority of state bodies.Officials included in their composition, acting on behalf of the state and within its competence, make decisions binding on other participants of legal relations.A special place is occupied by persons holding the highest public office.This is the president, ministers, chairmen of the chambers of Parliament, the Prime Minister and others who hold office through elections.
filling positions in state bodies is carried out mainly by the appointment.The state apparatus may also include some public institutions that spread their activities to other institutions or individuals who do not obey him directly.State-owned enterprises are not included in the structure, as though they have the right of administration and management decision-making, but only internally to manage their own activities.
principles
state apparatus operates on the basis of the general principles enshrined in the constitution.In democratic societies, these include: democracy, rule of law, professionalism, separation of powers, centralism and a number of others.
