K súvzťažnosti verejnej moci a verejnej správy.

Power is the fundamental concept in social science in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics. (B. Russell). „Public Power“ is a typical polysemic term. The perception of power, as one of the basic conditions for the development of society, but also of other communities (e.g. family, village, association of citizens), is typical of a significant multimeaning, often of a contradictory nature. Correlation between public administration and public power is a fundamental theorem. Power is a necessary condition for organizing, management, administration, or any combined activity. In our terms, we respect the opinion that public power is the power that authoritatively decides on the rights and obligations of subjects, either directly or indirectly. The entity whose rights and obligations are decided by a public authority is not on an equal footing with this authority, and the content of the decision of this authority does not depend on the subject‘s will. On the other hand, it is appropriate to respect the fact that the public power operation of public administration is not reduced only to „classical“ or apparently powerful manifestations of public administration, such as the authoritative imposition of duties, imposition of sanctions, enforcement actions or direct police interventions. Public administration - as a segment of public power - largely performs public administration activities that do not have an authoritarian character, that have the character of services. Public administration also carries out its activities through forms that have a horizontal character. It is appropriate to consider whether the activity of public administration can be generally classified as (i) superior (intervening) activity (public power character), (ii) non-superior (caring) activity (public semi-power character) and (iii) private law activity, which does not have a public administrative character. This hypothesis takes into account the thesis that soft power is power only if it rests on a foundation of hard power (S. P. Huntington). This text is polemical. (Respectable confrontation is perhaps the best source of knowing.)