REFORM OF LOCAL SELF-GOVERNMENT AND PROSPECTS FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF LOCAL DEMOCRACY IN UKRAINE
Journal Title: «Приватне та публічне право» - Year 2017, Vol 3, Issue
Abstract
The publication is devoted to topical problems of theory and practice of local democracy development in the context of local self-government reform in Ukraine on the basis of decentralization. The origins of the theory and practice of democracy in Antiquity, in the era of the Reformation and Renaissance, during bourgeois-democratic revolutions and wars for independence and in new and modern times in the XX – XXI centuries and their relation to the genesis of local government are analyzed. The transformation of post-socialist models and forms of local democracy into pro-Western ones is studied. Attention is drawn to the fact that two world wars in the twentieth century hampered the development of democracy and local self-government, but became a prerequisite for the normalization of the value of democracy and the human right to participate in the management of public affairs in the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other agreements and documents that formed the corresponding standard of local democracy. The author substantiates the need to use the potential of participatory democracy at the local level, in the context of the crisis of local electoral democracy in Ukraine. the traditional and new forms of participatory local democracy are identify and analyzed. The conclusion is made about the prospects for Ukraine in the context of local self-government reform 2015–2017, such models of democracy as electronic petitions and partisipator budgets, as well as examples of their successful implementation in Ukraine.
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О. М. Кудрявцева
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