Trachuk P. Participation of the citizens of Ukraine in local self-government.

The work is devoted to the research of theoretical and practical problems of participation of the citizens of Ukraine in local self-government. The thesis includes the analysis of the theories of local self-government, on the basis of which the nature of public authority of territorial hromadas is opened. The work gives also the analysis of the principles of democracy within the system of local self-government in Ukraine as the basic regulations of the legislation, which guarantee the participation of the citizens in the process of solving public affairs of local importance. The thesis also investigates the legal personality of the citizens in acceptance of the decisions of local importance. The conclusion states, that the legal personality of the citizens in local self-government is wider, than one of the foreigners. It analyses the tendencies to expansion of the volume of the municipal rights and freedoms, and also of the foreigners' legal personality at a level of local self- government. The basic forms of direct and representative participation of the citizens in local self-government, and also the mechanism of their realization are examined. And the procedure of acceptance of the imperious decisions by the inhabitants of territorial communities and the legal registration of their will, as the basic mechanism of realization of the citizens' participation in local self-government is also given in the research as well. The work defines the system of guarantees of local self-government. In particular, the system of the civil and the court control is analysed. In the thesis there was made an attempt to define the concept, bases and kinds of the responsibility, which is gradually singled out from the constitutional legal responsibility.