Retrospective view on administrative and territorial reforms in Ukraine in the context of public self-organization ; Ретроспектива административно-территориальных реформ в Украине в контексте общественной самоорганизации ; Ретроспектива адміністративно-територіальних реформ в Україні в контексті сус...
The retrospective analysis on administrative and territorial reforms in Ukraine in the context of public self-organization is made in the article. From the point of the theory of self-organization view the article considers the history of administrative and territorial reforms realization that have taken place in Ukraine in different times; as the results of these reforms the processes of regulation and qualitatively new self-organization or vice versa – processes of disintegration and degradation arose. It is substantiated that absence of independence of territorial communities and non-recognition of municipal authority can bring to constant state crises for certain. It is proved that without forming able territorial communities and appropriate constructive public self-organization all other forms can fail as it was in the previous years. In the conditions of decentralization of the public administration system, the problem of reforming the administrative-territorial structure of Ukraine is being activated, serving as a spatial basis for the effective work of state authorities and local self-government bodies. In modern conditions, in fact, the only opportunity to conduct a full-fledged reform of local self-government is its combination with the reform of the administrative-territorial system, focused on the consolidation of communities. Any other reform option is incapable of solving the problems of local government in a comprehensive way, since this reform should include two aspects: increasing the capacity of communities to perform their functions and redistributing functions and powers to match them. It should also be noted that the development of modern society requires new approaches to the analysis of the organization of local public authorities, including in the context of understanding of local self-government as one of the most important forms of social self-organization. At the same time, it is imperative to take into account its own history of the implementation of administrative and territorial ...