Kuchabskyy O. Theoretical and methodological principles of administrative-territorial organization in Ukraine

The object of research: transformation of the territorial administration system in terms of democratization of social relations. Objective: theoretical and methodological grounding of modern mechanisms of governance by transformations in the administrative-territorial structure of Ukraine. Methods: axiomatic, analysis and synthesis, abstraction, induction and deduction, structural-functional and comparative analysis, institutional, historical, situational. The results: scientific and theoretical grounding of foundation and development of administrative-territorial organization of Ukraine, development of scientific and applied mechanisms, models and technologies to enhance the functioning of public administration of territorial development. Novelty: it was systematized theoretical and methodological approaches to the grounding of theoretical conception to improve the organizational mechanism of public administration of regional systems development, it was substantiated mechanism of influence of administration decentralization on the efficiency of administrative-territorial units management, proposed the mechanism for increasing the functionality of territorial administration taking into account natural geographical, historical and geographical and socio-economic preconditions of individual territories development. It has been implemented in the activities of Lviv Regional Council of Lviv Regional State Administration, Administration of Main Civil Service of Ukraine in Lviv Region. Areas of use: scientific research, public administration of administrative and territorial development, training and retraining of civil servants and local government officials.