Doctrinal and Legal Approaches to the Definition of Civil Service

The civil service as a type of public service is distinguished by many scientists in the field of constitutional law, administrative law and other branches of law. However, a uniform approach in science to the definition of civil service has not been developed, because of discussion about belonging of the civil service to a particular branch of law. In this article, the civil service is considered from the perspective of various branches of law: as an labor law, administrative law, сivil service law and constitutional law. The author argues position about belonging of civil service to the branch of constitutional law, also the author argues necessity to consider civil service as a special professional work of citizens, analyzed legislation in order to give a legal definition of civil service, and offers doctrinal definition of civil service.