The scientific article is devoted to the research and comprehensive analysis of the conceptual foundations and principles of the modern understanding of public service. Arguably, it was stated that in the context of the implementation of public service and its functioning as a specific legal institution, it is appropriate to single out the following groups of legal principles of the organization and activity of public service: constitutional and institutional. Ensuring the constitutional rights and freedoms of a person and a citizen is carried out in accordance with the constitutional principles of the organization and functioning of the public service. Among such principles can be mentioned, for example, the principle of equal access to public service, the priority of human and citizen rights and freedoms, their direct effect, the obligation of their recognition, observance and protection. Institutional principles, that is, specific are the main vectors of the organization and functioning of the public service as a socio-legal institution, among which we can highlight: the unity of the legal and organizational foundations of the public service, which provides for the legislative consolidation of a unified approach to the organization of the public service, its openness and accessibility to public control, objectively informing society about the activities of public servants. Instead, despite the general nature of the legal principles, depending on the specific type of public service, these principles are modified and acquire a specific meaning. It is proved that a serious obstacle to the identification of specific principles of certain types of public service is an undifferentiated approach, in which constitutional and organizational principles are mixed within the framework of a single approach, and therefore, constitutional principles, being external determinants in relation to the public service system, represent a set of basic principles of organizing public power in general. Practically all of them are enshrined in the Constitution of Ukraine or directly follow from its provisions, and therefore, the range of external or constitutional foundations of the organization and activity of the public service will always be the same for all its types. We can only talk about different modifications of these principles depending on the specific type of service. Therefore, the special principles of certain types of service are its organizational foundations, while they can be distinguished as general principles that are characteristic of the entire institution of public service and special principles that characterize the specifics of public service, in particular, of a special purpose.
Rossikhin et al. (Mon,) studied this question.