행정에 관한 두 가지 접근 방법 - 행정학과 행정법학을 중심으로 하여 -

Today, administration is closely related to the rights and duties of citizens. Accordingly, how to make administration more citizen-friendly becomes an important problem. To respond to this, there are two major ways to approach administration. These are the administrative approach and the administrative law approach. Questions are here raised about how the two approaches relate to each other, what differences there are between the two, and how the two approaches could mutually develop in order to further develop public administration. These come to the problem of what the relationship between public administration and administrative law is. This article addresses this problem using a systems theory perspective. This article argues that public administration and administrative law differ in the following respects. These are internal orientation and external orientation, purposive rationality orientation and legality orientation, conflict prevention orientation and dispute resolution orientation, legislative orientation and judicial orientation, system-transcendent orientation and system-immanent orientation. However, this article is insufficient to explain the relationship between public administration and administrative law. Nonetheless, while conducting this study, the following perspectives were reaffirmed. Even when observing the same phenomenon, such as public administration, the observation results vary depending on which perspective, viewpoint, or method is used. In particular, if we insist on our own perspective, our observations could fall into a swamp of blind spots and self-closure. Therefore, it is necessary for legal studies to always face the limitations of blind spots and self-closure and to constantly strive to overcome the boundaries of positive law.