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Several reasons can be identified which discourage issues from being defined as "ethical" issues in public policy making. One is the cost of resolving ethical issues, another is that it is harder to predict what the outcomes will be of argument and discussion about ethical issues, and a third is that identifying issues as ethical makes salient the prospect for allocating moral responsibility and blame. Efforts to increase the scope of market mechanisms are associated with avoidance of ethical issues, since markets offer routine, quasi-mechanical processes to resolve disagreement. However, to avoid definition of issues as ethical problems tends to push aside some concerns which it is important to address as part of human life.

In article feasible analysis of correlation of public administration and local authorities; theoretical concepts of self-government-investigational; opens the essence of an administrative-territorial and state system. Realization of plenary powers of the local government sent to regularity of the territory, is investigated through a prism of cooperation of local government with local public administration it in parallel function in the respective territory. The directions and formation mechanisms from effective local government offer during realization of administrative reform which will provide compliance of interests of the state and territorial communities and creation of modern effective model of the power which is able to provide higher standard of living of citizens of Ukraine.Аdministrative reform, local self-government, local state administrations, cooperation of local self-government with local state administrations, decentralization of state administration.

In spite of alarms raised by economists and journalists over the decreasing availability of private pensions, relatively little is known about the topic. This paper explores the political aspects of pension policy, analyzing congressional hearings and organized interest group data from 1970 through 1994. Changes in committee influence, increased executive pressure for revenue without raising taxes, and interest group activity increasingly skewed toward business rather than workers are shown to underlie the present dilemma. This study thus adds to our understanding of pension policy and assesses current policy against competing theoretical models offered by pluralism, hyperpluralism, market as prison, and market justice. It concludes that pension policy is a case of market as prison and argues for renewed focus on the influence of private interests on public policy.

Public administration has moved beyond speaking of sustainability as a norm or a philosophy towards implementation and action. Lessons learned from sustainable development practice must now be documented and shared to increase the positive impact of sustainability initiatives. This series of papers offers that opportunity, with a special focus on local government applications of sustainability.

While various social science disciplines have dominated the recent spate of scholarly work in institutionalism, the study of institutions itself is not new in public administration. The study of public organizations and institutions has highlighted legal structure and cognitive design as well as culture and norms in understanding organizational behavior, which has contributed to a bifurcated view of institutions as either formal or informal. New institutionalism highlights that while regulative formal institutions can serve as lamp posts to political, social and economic behavior, normative informal institutions can oftentimes encompass a wider institutional field beyond political jurisdictions. This paper looks at the evolution of institutionalism from a public administration perspective and provides an overview of how new institutionalism can be the lens to comprehend the fundamental issues of governance and development.