Th e hypothesis of the article is that the basic administrative paradigms (Weberian and neo-Weberian; NPM; New Public Governance) are not capable of providing tools and procedures (sets of administrative mechanisms, attributed to the basic administrative paradigms) for governance which are suitable for overcoming the global administrative crisis. Th e arguments in support of this hypothesis are outlined through an analysis of scenarios of using such administrative mechanisms under the conditions of administrative crisis: (a) to use each set of administrative mechanism (or to limit their usage through some "good mechanisms") in the practice of governance despite their attribution to diff erent basic administrative paradigms; (b) to select the "best" basic administrative paradigm and to only follow this particular vision with recommendations on how to shape the administration and its work.In the fi nal part of the article the possible principles of a new administrative paradigm that could be relevant to the fast-changing contemporary situation and current instability are discussed.Keywords: administrative crisis; public administration reform; administrative paradigm; administrative mechanisms; eff ective state. Barabashev, A.G. (2016). Are existing administrative paradigms capable of providing tools to resolve the contemporary administrative crisis? Public Administration Issues, no 5 (Special Issue, electronic edition), pp. 6-25 (in English).
Citation:General Introduction into the Subject (administrative crisis and administrative paradigms) As this article is the second in a series of research papers dedicated to the author's discovery of a new Eff ective State paradigm (see the fi rst article: Baraba- TO RESOLVE... shev, 2016 -in Russian), I would like to start with a brief introductory description, mainly for English speaking readers, of the approach and ideas described in the fi rst article that are used as the foundation for the present research.
THE THEORY AND PRACTICES OF THE PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION THE THEORY AND PRACTICES OF THE PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
ARE EXISTING ADMINISTRATIVE PARADIGMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING THE TOOLSRecently, we have witnessed, worldwide, the escalating appearance of different local conceptual complexes of innovations which combine scientifi c, technological, economic, and social entities. Such complexes are increasingly infl uencing countries' development. States all over the contemporary world need the creation of new approaches to management in the new, rapidly changing conditions of innovative turmoil. Th is means that instead of the globalization of governance based on multinational agreements and on the coordination of hierarchical stability, a new governance reality aff ects every country, without exclusion, in terms of conditions of instability and uncertainty. Th e last decade has clearly shown that administrative tools and procedures of governance (socalled administrative mechanisms) should be heavily and repeatedly re-shaped and modernized.Th e administrative crisis tha...