Proceedings of the XXIII World Congress of Philosophy

Volume 69, 2018

Political Philosophy

Knowledge Networks in Public Policy as a Factor of the State’s Development

We can hardly deny the fact that nowadays the sphere of public administration of any state is experiencing the effects of an extremely unstable and unpredictable world in the most concentrated form. Challenges of both endogenous and exogenous origins threaten the political and administrative systems, so modern government has to change its preferences and is called upon to play a more dynamic, more complex, and less certain role, to develop itself. The extent of development of the modern state substantially depends on the ability to make new knowledge, to raise a role of education and scientific activity in society, to modernize the public sphere. However state development in many ways depends on the ability not only to make knowledge in various areas of activity of society, but also to use it (to involve experts in the system of public administration, to develop new strategies, to prepare actual, viable administrative reforms and so on) for timely reaction to complication of horizontal and vertical communications in social and political spheres. One of the effective ways of knowledge production and its usage in economy and political governance is the development of knowledge networks. In the public sphere knowledge networks are based on the possibilities of e-government and electronic democracy. They also can be formal and informal: they can be formed in the system of public administration (an exchange of knowledge between various departments of state agencies), and mainly out of it (expert and analytical work of professionals in certain fields of knowledge).