Today, one of Ukraine’s top priorities is the strengthening of the state as democratic and lawful country, in which cooperation of state authorities and the public is established on the basis of equal partnership, and citizens are enjoying full rights of state-public relations and their involvement into the managerial processes of the country. The key assignments in this field are to ensure the effectiveness and efficiency of public control mechanisms. It goes without saying that the role of civil society organizations and the particular individual as well is constantly increasing on the wave of European integration and revitalization of democratic processes. New mechanisms of the public cooperation with state authorities are being applied, public platforms for discussion and implementation of state policy are being established, and political capacity of citizens is increasing. At the same time, some shortcomings of the legislative mechanism for the implementation of public control, on one hand, lead to systematic and mass violations of human rights and freedoms (in particular, in regards with the armed conflict in the East of the country), and on the other hand, they hold back further qualitative development of civil society and Ukraine’s formation as democratic and lawful country.The main purpose is to analyze the current state of scientific working on the issue of public control over the activities of public administration.Current status of scientific development issue of public control over the activity of public administrationis analyzed in the article. It states a wide range of problems related to nonsystematic scientific investigations in this field, the lack of mechanisms for the implementation of scientific achievements into practice, the shortage of state support for scientific and legal promotion of public control. A big gap between science and practice has been proven in the field of realization of public control. Also some outlines of priority steps to overcome those drawbacks are highlighted in the article.The practical significance of the results obtained is that the author’s conclusions and suggestions can be used in the sphere of scientific research, in educational and methodological work, in law-educational activity.