SOCIOCULTURAL PREREQUISITES FOR THE HUMANIZATION OF PUBLIC POLICY ELABORATION

Abstract

The article examines the prerequisites for the humanization of public policy elaboration, which are represented by the radical changes taking place in the socio-economic, political, and cultural spheres and they also characterize the type of modern society as post-industrial. Rapid technological development, the main resource of which is knowledge / intelligence, the growth of information flows, the virtualization of relations, globalization processes – on the one hand, this is the result of the colossal cultural potential created by human civilization, on the other hand, it generates large-scale contradictions and accumulates challenges for human, society, social institutions. The emergence of threats to their existence, aggravation of contradictions, dehumanization of public life, – they actualize the rethinking of humanistic values and ways of solving the «human problem». So, there are opened up the perspectives for co-evolution of human, society, nature, for «returning» integrity to the personality (combination of self-actualization and responsibility for common existence / state of affairs) with an emphasis on the priority of the moral principle of human behaviour. The humanization of public policy elaboration is considered as a natural trend of paradigmatic changes in the study of society, as a process and indicator of the human interactions culture regarding the coordination of diverse interests. The humanistic principles of public policy elaboration are identified, which are manifested in: democratic forms of policy implementation and administration – the functioning of a democratic political regime and the implementation of democratic governance; in the goals and tasks of public policy – elaborating common interests and searching solutions for collective issues; in the content of political and management decisions, that appear as a result of cooperation between the government and its surrounding social environment; in tools / means and mechanisms of public policy, that ensure the consensus decisions making; in democratic methods of public administration.