Pojam uprave – shvatanja u teoriji i osvrt na osnovna načela

The paper presents different understandings of the concept of administration, realized in legal theory, which had a great impact on the theory of entire administrative law, with a simultaneous review of the key principles on which the action and functioning of the administration should be based. In the paper, the author attempts to present his observations and conclusions regarding different theoretical understandings of both domestic and foreign legal theoreticians, as well as to reach the findings (based on the analysis of different attitudes and approaches to defining the concept of administration), related to the definition of administration, the basic principles that are important for its organization, functioning and effectiveness, but also to the characteristics that administration should have to represent one of the pillars of the rule of law.