ABSTRACT
The article discusses the central considerations of political administration about management as its central object. It is argued that the centrality of management to political administration does not differ from the so-called mainstream, while maintaining the same reduction of social problems as a mere management problem. The article proposes a resumption of the relationship between State management and social contradictions, demonstrating that the first one presupposes and does not seek to eliminate such contradictions. In discussing the proposition of political administration that its object is management, it is shown that the real object of State management are the social contradictions that form its basis. It is argued that in assuming the point of view of such management, political administration is implied to the limits of political reason (political voluntarism and impotence of the administration), that is, it does not correctly grasp the driving forces of social ills. It is proposed that political administration must express from reality the relationship between State and the contradictory movement of the capitalist economy. In this sense, we present at the end implications and guidelines for research in the area.
Keywords:
Political administration; Social contradictions; Capitalist economy