Paper/Speech Details of Conference Program for the 27th NISPAcee Annual Conference Program Overview General Session Author(s) Viktor Sapryka Belgorod State University Belgorod Russian Federation Zvyeryeva Olga, Denys Tkachov, Kharkоv, Ukraine, tkachov.denys@gmail.com Title Transforming Public Administration in Turbulent Times: the Case Study of Russia, Ukraine and Belarus File Paper files are available only for conference participants, please login first. Presenter Viktor Sapryka Abstract The processes of independent state building after the disintegration of the USSR have predetermined the tracks of development of public administration systems in the new states. We are going to present the results of the success analysis of public administration reforms in Russia, Belarus and Ukraine – the states that have been the core of the Soviet Union. For a long time, these states lived in the common socio-cultural, legal and economic system, which, on the one hand, has resulted in similar problems in the process of public administration reformation, and on the other hand, crystallized the peculiarities of public administration evolution that could be extrapolated to the whole post-Soviet space. In the geopolitical reality for these states, the interstate border was close to non-existent for centuries (in the Russian Empire and the USSR); it was an extremely light administrative and consequently economic barrier. It had no cultural significance due to the ethnic diffusion of Russian and Ukrainian populations across the border and the shared axiological system. The political aspect of the border was also insignificant because border regions belonged to the same, though proclaimed as federative, state. Such problems and peculiarities shape not only the state reforms, but also the development of the whole civil society. Another factor that determines the transformation of the public administration systems, is cooperation of its agencies between themselves and with foreign partners. Before 2013, the public administration reforms in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus had had similar vectors determined by bilateral Treaties of Amity and Cooperation. However, after 2013 Ukraine has been struggling to move to a public administration system inspired by the one adopted in the EU. The objectives of our research include a comparative analysis of public administration systems in Russia, Belarus and Ukraine, analysis of effectiveness of the administrative reforms, and drawing scenarios of social space development in these states.
