Local government as an institution of civil society: municipal-legal problems of interaction and functioning

Abstract

The article is devoted to the research of municipal-legal problems of increasing the efficiency of civil society functioning in Ukraine. The emphasis is on the need to improve and strengthen the legal status of local self-government as the fundamental institution of civil society. The contemporary theory of local self-government as an institution of civil society is considered, its role in ensuring the stability of the constitutional system and the development of constitutionalism in Ukraine is determined. The basic theories of self-government are analyzed, the definition of local self-government as one of the main forms of democracy and the constitutional means of limiting state power in the conditions of formation of civil society is proposed. This approach emphasizes the increasing role of the municipal-territorial factor in the life of civil society. It is connected with the creation of capable territorial communities, confirmation of democratic intentions of national states and their special attention to the inhabitants of certain territories.It is concluded that only realization for long time in the minds of residents - members of territorial communities - of stable anti-theatrical institutions, radical changes in the stereotypes of socio-political behavior of the general population, its self-organization and self-discipline, the formation of patriotic sentiments may in the future become the basis for leveling the conflict between state and public interest, the formation of an optimal balance between public and private, and, therefore, a powerful tool for improving efficiency the organization and functioning of civil society.

Representative Bodies in Ukraine: Doctrinal Developments

“…In her work, the author uses the adjective "representative" quite "generously". Thus, in the introduction to her study, she consistently talks about the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine as a "nationwide representative body (Slovska,7), singles out the "representative direction of activity of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine" (Slovska,7) and emphasizes that the Parliament of Ukraine has "representative functions and powers" (Slovska,7).…”