The dissertation is devoted to the research of actual problems of formation of the state municipal policy in Ukraine. Theoretical and doctrinal approaches to the definition of municipal state policy in the context of analysis of the system of issues related to doctrinal and praxeological guidelines, namely: methodological and ontological approaches to understanding and defining the legal policy of the state; ontological and normative approaches to determining the elemental composition of municipal policy; methodological approaches to understanding the subjective composition of the municipal legal policy of Ukraine in the context of determining the range of its participants and beneficiaries; functional characteristics of municipal policy in Ukraine.
It is proved that the need for legal policy as a social and legal phenomenon is primarily related to the objective need for continuous improvement of law, legal regulation, the need to purposefully change the legal system and determine the vector of legal development of society.
Taking into account that there is a whole range of topical issues of the implementation of municipal LPS in Ukraine, the author devoted a separate section of the dissertation to their research and analysis. Therefore, the further development of democratic legal statehood in the context of the formation and development of municipal LPS in Ukraine is considered, while the role of international standards of the LSG, especially in the formation, structuring and development of such state policy, is investigated, as well as the mutual relationship between the development of local democracy and its influence is analyzed on the modification of the municipal LPS in Ukraine.
At the same time, taking into account the current political and legal realities, it was established that the actualization of the issues of municipal LPS is directly related to the conditions of existence and functioning of the general phenomenology of statehood and the international community of states in crisis conditions, which actually contributes to its objectification, actualization, and contextualization in under such conditions, that is why it needs both a qualitatively new understanding, a clearer organizational and methodological content, as well as in order to implement new characterological tasks – it needs new mechanisms of normative-legislative and managerial-technological support and provision, and both at the national and at the international levels.
It is in the context of the above that it is argued that the modern understanding of the semantic and etymological load of the terminological system "democratic legal statehood", where the categorical concept of "statehood" acts as a support, turns out to be such that it not only possesses sovereign-subordination and power-competent guidelines, but also contains it contains essential self-governing components that can be reflected and consolidated in the municipal LPS. This is determined, first of all, by the collectivist principles of the exercise of public power, the real access of a person to the exercise of such power at various levels of society, including his ability to actively or passively influence it, the legalization of the rights and freedoms of a person and a citizen, as well as other humanitarian and humanitarian parameters of the implementation of activities the state in many spheres of social life, arising not only from the personal preferences of its political elite, but also from the international legal obligations of the state, undertaken by it during the signing of international multilateral treaties.
So, in conclusion, it is stated that the formation of the municipal LPS, taking into account the existence of a self-governing (municipal) level of public power, is objective and necessary, especially under the conditions of the formation, development and improvement of the constitutional and legal institution of the LSG, because it is: a) acts as an integral and immanent part of state legal policy; b) is its natural reaction to the constitutional legalization and social legitimation of the Institute of the LSG; c) acts as an institutional element of state legal policy; d) demonstrates its institutional content through identification with state-management activities; і) by its teleological dominants, in many respects it does not coincide with the functional and operational guidelines of public state power, possessing the corresponding features; e) is an instrumental-methodological, organizational-legal and behavioral-active means of forming and implementing one of the most important elements of democratic legal statehood – the LSG.
Key words: resident, resident-member of the territorial community, local self-government, legal policy of the state, municipal legal policy, territorial community, municipal reform.
