Territorial governance in Ukraine: constitutional and legal bases

Abstract

Introduction. The aim of the article. The article examines the relevance of the study and specification of problems regarding the constitutional and legal foundations of territorial governance in Ukraine. They are considered in the context of reforming the administrative-territorial system, the system of territorial organization of public power, transformation of local self-government on the basis of decentralization of public power. Emphasis is placed on the notion of governance as a new paradigm for the development of public power and public management in the context of modern unitarism of Ukraine. Results. Investigation of the territorial aspects of governance requires reflection, analysis and clarification of a complex of issues. Among them, it is advisable to identify the following. 1. Theoretical and methodological principles of governance in its territorial dimension. 2. Actually territorial principles of governance in the disclosure of provisions on constitutional and legal understanding of territorial governance; establishment and development of the territorial governance system; territorial community governance, subregional and regional governance. 3. Foreign experience of territorial governance in the context of the European concept of good governance of territorial governance; regulatory and legal regulation of good governance in Council of Europe, European Union documents; implementation of good territorial governance in Ukraine in the conditions of preservation and development of its unitary principles. 4. Improvement of territorial governance in the process of realization of innovations of the state regional policy in the conditions of age-political confrontation, realization of administrative and administrative-territorial reforms in understanding of the constitutional aspects of transformation of territorial governance; transformation of territorial governance with decentralization of public power; governance of the reform of the administrative and territorial structure. Conclusions. These issues are actualized in the context of the modernization of the Constitution of Ukraine, the need for systematic updating of the constitutional regulation of the territorial organization of power, continuation of processes of decentralization of public power, unification of territorial communities, inter-municipal cooperation, changes in the system of administrative-territorial structure, the emergence of new entities, institutions of executive power.