Communicative Support of the Process of Power Decentralization on National-State Level: Analysis of Information Policy of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine (2014-2018)

Abstract

All reforms in demoсratic state involve timely and reasoned informing by government about actions and their consequences for all citizens. Such informational and educational activities impact on both the level of confidence in government and the success of reform results in general. If the changes concern the local self-government, public awareness should be one of the principal goals of the government and carried out by various ways. In this aspect, the beginning of the process of power decentralization in Ukraine has become the unique illustration of the widespread information-analytical work by the government. The article presents the results of a government discourse investigation about the process of power decentralization in Ukraine, which posted on the official website of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine and in the newspaper “Uriadovy Courier” from April 1, 2014 to June 2018. We analyzed these publications in quantitative correlation as well as separated features of discourse for each respective year. Also, we made attempt to summarize the factors influencing the communicative support of the reform.