This dissertation is devoted to the theoretical and methodological essentials of formation and implementation of the national anticorruption policy as a specific direction of reforms in the system of public power. Recommendations to improve the principles of regulatory, organizational and institutional support for the implementation of national anticorruption policy under the Ukrainian society’s transformation are developed. It is substantiated that the methodological algorithm for scientific research on the formation and implementation of the national anticorruption policy is based on the integration of the following areas: institutional and legal (legislative and regulatory means and methods of counteraction to corruption), organizational and managerial (functionality in the distribution of powers and control), axiological (values of public servants), ethical and cultural (professional environment of public service) etc. It is proved that in the conditions of the formation of a system of counteraction to corruption in the state (the development of rational models for its improvement) the national anti-corruption policy is a mechanism for maintaining the system of public administration in stability and balance.
On the basis of the research methodology on the problems of counteracting corruption it is established that the following methods should be provided in the process of formation and implementation of the national anti-corruption policy: a systematic approach is aimed to reveal the impact of corruption on society and the public administration system, to investigate the disorganization and reorganization effects of corruption; an institutional method is used for determination of the institutions of public administration system, the purpose of which is to prevent and counteract corruption, to eliminate the consequences of corrupt acts; a morphological method is to describe the corruption forms and manifestations in public administration system; a phenomenological method assists to explain the subjective perception of corruption, its socio-cultural, in particular, psychological, social, mental prerequisites; a comparative and historical method is analyzing the historical forms of corruption in Ukraine, it provides a retrospective analysis of the social psychology, their socio-cultural mentality, changes, which are always lagging behind the dynamics of the socio-economic sphere development; a comparative method comprises of foreign experience implementation in the formation of anticorruption policy and European standards of administrative behavior in the field of counteracting corruption; an empirical method (observation, survey, evaluation, statistical and content analysis, modeling, etc.).
The content of the concepts "anti-corruption policy", "anti-corruption mechanisms", "anti-corruption standards of management", "anticorruption strategy of the state", "national anti-corruption policy" is specified. The modern "paradox of tolerance" in the process of formation and implementation of the national anticorruption policy, which can be determined as a socially acceptable level of corruption in the public management that blocks the rational content of the national anticorruption policy, is determined. The ineffective legislative framework of the national anticorruption policy in combination with excessive fragmentation of the public policy in the investigated sphere negatively affects on the implementation of the national anticorruption policy.
The dissertation reveals the social nature of corruption as one of the most dangerous manifestations of social life, which is its product, and is the consequence of a clearly expressed the inefficiency of the activities of state and public institutions. It is established that anti-corruption legislation is only a ground on which fundamental structural transformations can be made, and the extent of corruption, specifics and determinants is a consequence of the country's general political, social and economic problems. This is a reaction to the crisis in the main spheres of public life, which is manifested in the deep mismatch between the mechanisms of public administration and the fundamental goals of society's development.
