Molodozhen Y. Determination of Self-sufficiency of Territorial Communities: Theoretical and Methodological Basis

Object of research - territorial community (TC) as a variety of territorial frames of society. Purpose of research - theoretical and methodological ground, development and application of methodical approaches to determination of self-sufficiency of TC in Ukraine. Methods of research - analysis and synthesis; systems approach; structural and functional analysis; analysis of dynamics of indexes; questioning; expert estimations; design. The practical value of results of research consists that offered method of determination of self-sufficiency it is possible to apply TC in the subsequent works in the direction of reformation of the administrative and territorial mode. The scientific novelty of got results consists that for the first time conception of determination of self-sufficiency of TC is offered; TC is presented as a territorial frame of society, origin, becoming and development of which are considered from the positions of theory of social action; theoretical and methodological approaches to determination of level of self-sufficiency of TC are developed on the basis of complex criterion and gravimetric estimation of self-sufficiency of the political, economic, valued-spiritual systems and organ of local self-government. Methodological approaches to determination of classification descriptions of community as a territorial frame of society by application of structural functional analysis; essence of definition "self-sufficiency" from the positions of positions of theory of the systems, as a relative measure of integrity of the system "territorial community"; machineries of co-operation of basic inlying subsystems of TC by determination and redistribution of their functions in relation to the systems of higher level for providing integrity of community as systems; methodical approaches to the analysis and estimation of social and economic state of TC by the complex application of statistical and sociological methods are improved. Ground of expedience of use of systems approach in case of researches TC as varieties of territorial frames of society; category vehicle of theory of state administration in industry of local self-government in the context of use and clarification of notions; methodological approaches to determination of criteria of self-sufficiency of basic subsystems of TC from the position of theory of social action; ground of leading role of TC in creation of the effective system of local self-government; scientific looks, touching reformations of the administrative and territorial mode, principle of self-sufficiency of TC is fixed in the basis of which; the organizational machineries of introduction in activity of organs of local self-government of information technologies for the rise of efficiency of their information and analytical support got the subsequent development.