The theoretical and legal problems of the ensuring of provision of public services to the business entities by local self-government bodies

Abstract

Problem setting. The practice of providing public services to both state and local bodies in Ukraine needs improvement. The current shortcomings of the modern public service delivery system not only cause dissatisfaction of individual citizens but also can create obstacles to economic activity. At the same time, it is the level of quality and accessibility of such services that should become the main criteria for the effectiveness of public management in general. The purpose of the research is to determine and study the main components of the problem of providing public services to business entities by local self-government bodies, from the conceptual point of view, as well as by the means of analysis of the problems of legal provision of such services, including in view of ongoing reform decentralization in Ukraine. Analysis of resent researches and publications. The issue of providing public (administrative) services is the subject of scientific research of many specialists in various fields of law. Among them are the works of such scientists as O. M. Bukhanevich, Ya. B. Mykhailyuk, O. V. Olshansky, V. V. Romanova, V. M. Soroko, V. P. Tymoschuk and others. Article`s main body. The urgency of finding ways to solve the above problems is validated by the growing scientific interest in the problems of development and reform of the public power system as well as by increasing the attention to the issue of revising and amending the current legislation aimed at creation of a transparent, efficient and effective system of state and local self-government in Ukraine. The basis for such transformations today should be the reform of decentralization of public power, which involves the redistribution of powers and functions between different branches and levels, as well as the subsystems of public power, in particular, taking into account the foreign experience of decentralized European countries. The latter shows that the implementation of the decentralization reform has the effect not only of a significant reduction of the effects of crisis phenomena, of solving a large part of socio-economic and other problems, but also of the realization of many strategic tasks of national development. Conclusions. Thus, in our opinion, the legislative implementation of the best modern European and world practices in the field of providing quality and affordable public services, as well as further coordinated actions of public and private sector towards the implementation of the local self-governance reform plan can have a positive impact on increasing economic benefits for private sector.