The public documentation and social audit: correspondence and distinction between concepts

The article considered the notions of the concepts of public documentation and social audit with the aim of clarifying their object, subject and tasks. A comparative study of public documentation and social audit technologies has been carried out. The terminology has been specified, the principle of objectivity and scientific validity of public documentation and social audit results has been concretized. The authors suggested making the social audit an independent branch of public documentation. Differentiating the concepts of public documentation and social audit opens up the prospects for developing the public administration, both in scientific and methodological terms, and in practical terms.