Tynkovan O. Non-governmental organizations as policymakers

The object is public policymaking process. The goal is a scientific and theoretical grounds of the role and place of non-governmental organizations as policymakers. The methods: problem and chronological approach, historical method, content-analysis, classification, comparative method, expert survey. The novelty: basic trend of non-governmental organizations studing are specified; existent scientific approaches to non-governmental organizations which are engaged in researching society problems are summarized and the notion "non-governmental research organizations" and its definition are proposed;NGDO's idention criterias are proposed. The results of the given investigation can be used by central and regional state authorities and local government bodies, NGRO; in the process of teaching of public administration science and political science by institution of higher education; in the training for members of NGRO; for conducting practical researches on the developing of national programme and programmsof the territorial communities development.