INFORMATION, ANALYTICAL AND INFORMATION-ANALYTICAL ACTIVITY AS A SUBJECT OF ADMINISTRATIVE LAW RESEARCH

Abstract

The article reviews information, analytical, and information-analytical activity as a subject of administrative law research. Based on the analysis of the concepts of “information activity”, “analytical activity”, and “information-analytical activity” proposed in the scientific literature, it is concluded that information-analytical activity has the following features. Firstly, it can be considered as a social phenomenon, hence the subjects of its implementation can be all subjects of public relations (people, companies, state bodies, etc.). Secondly, information-analytical activity can be carried out in two forms within public law and public relations: 1) as one of the main activities of a power entity (for example, ensuring the verification of the business reputation of a media buyer); 2) as an additional, but mandatory, element of one of the types of governmental activities (for example, within the framework of law-making activities of executive bodies). Thirdly, information-analytical activity creates and changes the information space and is implemented exclusively in this space. Fourthly, if the key purpose of the activity is the analytical processing of information, thus the essence of such activity is information-analytical. However, if the key purpose changes, information-analytical activity becomes auxiliary within another type of activity (for example, within justice or other jurisdictional activity). It is proved that the term “information and analytical activity”, as a rule, is used when describing the particularities of activities of public authorities, while the term “information and analytical work” is used when characterizing internal organizational work in public authorities and when characterizing external information activities of entities that do not have public authorities. It is noted that the correlation and use of “information and analytical activity” and “information and analytical work” depend solely on the researcher’s discretion because there are no objective criteria for distinguishing these concepts. The concepts of “information and analytical activity” and “information and analytical work” are proposed to be considered identical.