Shportyuk N. Reform of the administrative and territorial division of Poland as a basis for local government experience to Ukraine

The object of study is the social relations that arise in the implementation of administrative reforms in post-communist Poland and Ukraine. The aim of the thesis is the theoretical basis of scientific statements on reforming the territorial organization of power in Ukraine based on the Polish experience. Scientific novelty of the results is that the first thesis:reasonable set of theoretical, scientific and practical provisions for adapting the Polish experience in building territorial base European model of local government in the preparation and conduct of national administrative and territorial reform, improved: identification of regulatory principles of territorial transformations as a basis for constructing local governments in Poland and Ukraine, which allowed to develop proposals to improve the regulatory framework of the administrative- territorial reform in Ukraine, received further development: approaches to regulatory reform of the territorial structure of local government in Ukraine on the basis of Polish achievements in the area of the state, which allowed to formulate the main areas of training and the administrative- territorial reform in Ukraine, conceptual approaches to the formation of the territorial foundations of local self-government, which helped establish what is the concept of territorial system developed EU countries can be combined with national approaches to the scientific study of the territorial structure of local democracy; recommendations for administrative and territorial reforms in Ukraine through a combination of state and national experience of European traditions to improve territorial basis of local democracy.