Published: 15 January 2017
Purpose. Study of features of public service institutionalization in Russia and formation of recommendations for institutional transformation at the modern stage of development. Methods. The study is based on the analysis of neo institutional methodology in its application to the problems of public service. Because of the use of comparative analysis the author defined incompliance of the definition of the public service in the existing Russian legislation to the characteristics of public institution, that makes it difficult to institutionalize public service in post-Soviet Russia. Results. The author designed the architecture of a public service institute including legal, institutional and human components. Institutional characteristics and place of this institution in the institutional environment of society were identified. Algorithm of institutional changes in the public service was specified. Scientific novelty. The author clarified the notion of public service for political science and its institutional characteristics. Public service is defined as a political-administrative institution created to meet public needs in the professional execution of political decisions in all sectors of activity, where the public administration.