Abstract
The work analyzes the mechanism of legal support of e-democracy development in Ukraine and European Union in a part of formation and implementation of its tools. A position of central executive authorities in Ukraine in the context of e-democracy development is considered.
 The Ukrainian legislative base of formation and realization of e-democracy tools have been studied, and ones, considered priority in the aspect of their legal support and implementation level, have been separated. These e-democracy tools in Ukraine include: e-consulting, e-petitions, e-appeals, participation budgets (public budgets).
 The analysis of e-democracy tools, offered and implemented in the EU countries allowed to establish a series of them, needed additional attention from both state authorities of Ukraine and Ukrainian publicity. These tools include: e-voting, e-referendum, e-plebiscites, and e-election process totally.
 Based on comparison analysis of using e-democracy tools in Ukraine and EU, there have been separated obstacles on the way of potential improvement of the national legal mechanism of e-democracy development as to its tools usage at the national, regional and local levels. The main ones are: imperfection of resource provision of the development legal mechanism; absence of an integral idea of the development strategy of e-democracy as an institution in the state; predominance of e-services automation development over development of tools of active involvement of citizens in participation in the public-political life of the country.
 Recommendations for public authorities as to improvement of the existent legal mechanism of implementation, use and development of e-democracy tools in a part of development of a series of strategic documents that must fix the priority of e-democracy development, its resource support; comprehensive support to public initiatives as to implementation and development of e-democracy and e-participation tools and so on, have been substantiated.
Highlights
The proper level of e-democracy is one of aims of digital society formation
Success of e-democracy tools formation and implementation depends on proper functioning of the totality of interconnected e-democracy mechanisms
The practices of foreign countries indicate that general regulation of e-democracy development in executive authorities is relied on the profile ministry or another central body of executive power with the correspondent fixation of priority directions of its development in the legislation, alongside with it, in managing conceptual documents of the Government
Summary
The proper level of e-democracy is one of aims of digital society formation. Its realization takes place by using its tools, directed on increasing, first of all, the level of public participation in the political life of a country. Of 20.09.2017 “On approval of the Conception of e-government development in Ukraine”; the Order of the President of Ukraine No 683/2002 of 01.08.2002 “On additional arrangements as to providing activity transparency of state authorities”; the resolution of the Cabinet of Ministries of Ukraine No 1302 of 29.08.2002 “On arrangements as to further provision of activity transparency of executive authorities” with changes of 05.02.2020; the resolution of the Cabinet of Ministries of Ukraine No 386-р of 15.05.2013 “On approval of the development Strategy of information society in Ukraine”; the resolution of the Cabinet of Ministries of Ukraine No 797-р of 08.11.2017 “On the Conception of e-democracy development in Ukraine and the plan of arrangements as to its realization” with changes of 05.02.2020; the resolution of the Cabinet of Ministries of Ukraine No 67-р of 17.01.2018 “On the Conception of digital economy and society in Ukraine for 2018-2020”, with changes of 04.12.2019 It is defined in the Conception of e-democracy development in Ukraine that “the most spread e-democracy tools, used for today in Ukraine at both national and local level, are e-consulting, e-petitions, e-appeals, participation budgets (public budgets). Legal bases for the development of e-democracy tools in Ukraine According to the hierarchic structure of legal support of e-democracy development in Ukraine, the study was conducted as to the proper level of legal support of e-tools, most spread in Ukraine, which results are presented on Fig. 2
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