On October 10, 2019 at the meeting of Council D 203.019.01 on the defense of dissertations for the degree of candidate of sciences, for the degree of doctor of sciences created on the basis of the Federal State Budgetary Educational Institution of Higher Education “V.Ya. Kikot’ Moscow University of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation” S.A. Nikiforova defended the dissertation on the topic: “Statelegal views of E. N. Berendts” (specialty 12.00.01– Theory and History of Law and State; History of Doctrines on Law and State) for the degree of candidate of juridical sciences. The Dissertation Council, chaired by the Deputy Chairman of the Dissertation Council D 203.019.01, Doctor of Law, Professor V.P. Malakhov, unanimously decided that the dissertation of S. A. Nikiforova is a scientific and qualification work, which is essential for the science of theory and the history of law and the state and meets the requirements established by the Regulation on awarding scientific degrees, as well as on awarding S. A. Nikiforova the degree of candidate of juridical sciences on specialty 12.00.01. The article is the official opponent’s review of the dissertation. The structure and content of the dissertation of N. S. Nikiforova are analyzed.

The article examines the views of Western European and domestic lawyers-policeists of the XVIII – first quarter of the XX centuries on the aims and issues of public administration. Analyzes the works of scientists, which consider the term «police» in a broad and narrow sense, the ideas of eudaimonism, the concepts of «management» and «administration», and notes the continuity of the studied views of scientists on the aims and issues of public administration.

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