The Territorial and Decentralization Reform in Ukraine (2014–2020)

• Authors: Serhii Horbliuk , Oleh Brovko

Abstracts

EN

The article is devoted to the reform of local self-government and territorial organisation of power in Ukraine, which took place in 2014–2020, combining three important tasks: improving the system of public authority, strengthening local self-government, and streamlining the administrative-territorial system in the state. The analysis conducted in the study concerns: the main problems to be addressed by the relevant reform; the chronology of the adoption of key regulations and their role in this process; the results of the amalgamation of territorial communities; and the communities’ ability to ensure the sustainable development of territories. As a result, the article highlights the stages of the implementation of the reform of local self-government and territorial organisation of power in Ukraine, as well as outlines several unresolved issues in this area.

Keywords

EN

territorial reform; decentralisation; Ukraine; territorial organisation of power; amalgamated territorial communit

• Publisher: University of Warsaw - Centre for European Regional and Local Studies (EUROREG) and Regional Studies Association - Polish Section
• Journal: Studia Regionalne i Lokalne
• Year: 2022
• Issue: 2(88)
• Pages: 16-30

Dates

published

2022

Contributors

author

Serhii Horbliuk

• Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Educational and Scientific Institute of Public Administration and Civil Service, Department of Regional Policy

• https://orcid.org/0000000250312497

author

Oleh Brovko

• Simon Kuznets Kharkiv National University of Economics, Department of International Relations, Political Science and Practical Philosophy

• https://orcid.org/0000000191864194

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Identifiers

DOI

10.7366/1509499528802

Biblioteka Nauki

2080156