Zbyshko I. Infrastructure of the Civil Society in Ukraine: Formal Matters and Practical Aspects

The thesis is devoted to substantiation of the phenomenon of the infrastructure of civil society, which aims to ensure its effective participation in the development of state public policy, regulation and governance. The legislative environment, stipulating the formation and functioning of the phenomenon, is analyzed. The following components are described: experts and expert environment, social institutions, various kinds and types of civic organizations, which form a peculiar morphological structure of the phenomenon and provide for the implementation of the complex of functions, peculiar to the civil society as a collective repository of non-government forms of rule. The complex assessment of the mechanisms of organizational interaction between the state and civil society with the existing infrastructure in Ukraine is performed.