“Who Will Rule?”: Institution of State in the Transformation Process of the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries

Abstract

The aim of this research is to explain some tendencies of the transformation process of public administration in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries from theoretical positions of institutional theory. Post-industrial order put us into new reality, where the state as institution of institutions may collapse. It has to be understood that the future of the state as institution and this point of view is the most important for the research. The methodology of institutional analysis, the general theory of systems and the system-structural approach based on it are used to identify and justify the connections of elements of systems. An interdisciplinary approach has gained particular importance here, since institutional theory is dualistic due to legal and economic sciences. Legal science laid the theoretical foundations of institutionalism, and economic science contributed to the implementation of the ideas of institutionalism in the practice of state formation and regulation of public relations. Vetocracy as the end point of institutional development of the state shows, that new approach for the public administration has to be found. The service state as a new model to decide a problem of vetocracy is not the right way for society, but it is going on not only in highly developed countries, but also in emerging markets countries. The research describes some tendencies of these transformation processes.