Levchuk P. Growth coalition as a subject of power relations in the local political regimes.

The object is the coalitional nature of the local political regime actors interaction. The aim is to reveal the peculiarities of formation and development of growth coalitions as a subject of power relations in local political regime. The methods are structural-functional, comparative, content analysis. The work reveals the matter and characteristic features of growth coalition. The idea of necessity to researching of latent relationship, which grounded on formal and most important informal agreement of local politic elites, is grounded. Author methods of investigation are provided while research aspects of coalition activities in focus by modern local processes. In these terms the research has analyzed features of different local communities (North America, West and Central Europe, Russian Federation and Ukraine). The dissertation investigates process of institutionalization this local regimes and determined the importance of cross-sectoral cooperation to form an independent regimes for different territories. Author proved by analyze patterns of government policy according to local growth and modern global division of labor the high ability of local regimes for adaptation incoming challenges to their own agenda. In thesis is analyzed development such Ukrainian cities as Kyiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Donets'k, Kharkiv, Odessa and Lviv. Author investigates them by research interest in term of local growth perspective. Application spheres are local government and training courses.