Public interest as Machiavellian legacy in social management and political governance

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Governments and public administrations have been struggling to cope with productivity in the last century; they have, therefore, transferred fundamental ethical issues in the field of government and public administration without sharing their actions with the public.

As the main concept of Machiavellian thin Prince, public interest is an invisible hand, and an immensely efficient tools, that reduces the cost of creating mutual understanding between the government and the people; it, actually, seems to be the cornerstone of a government.

One of the most significant and fundamental changes in public administration and government thin Prince occurred during the Renaissance, and Machiavelli presented us with a comprehensive view of the governance and direction of societies in a changing and uncertain world.

The present paper examines the concept of interest as an unknown legacy of Machiavelli in the analysis of the underlying foundations of public sovereignty; it, further, examines what should be done in order to realize efficient public management to confront daily challenges, the to return to the sources of the philosophy of Classical politics, how the problems facing public management in societies can be handled by implementing a set of tools and techniques, including standardized and proven tools as a new paradigm in public management, all of which aim at generating and forming good governance behaviors.

As a political and legal concept, interest is of paramount importance in the field of administration in all communities.

With the advent and development of the principle of interest in government patterns, it is necessary to consider various types and the theoretical foundations and its applied patterns by the experts in terms of the nature and results expected in the general management of various societies, specifically from the perspective of thinkers.

For this purpose, the authors considered the political thin Prince of one of the greatest scholars of Western political philosophy as an example in order to form valuable ideas through paying attention to non- Islamic intellectual, political and legal and, to put it more precisely, adapting theoretical foundations and its executive agencies to present systems.

Accordingly, the principle of "interest" was designed and pursued at the foundations of Machiavelli's political thought; it is hoped to implicate the findings of the present study in order to develop and generalize the concept of interest in the Islamic Republic of Iran.