The dissertation deals with the complex analysis of the role of civil society institutions in the process of corruption prevention in public institutions of Ukraine with the help of empirical material, systematized in a number of doctrinal researches, specialized on relevant problems.
Due to the generalization of the current condition of the Ukrainian legislation combined with consolidation of a significant amount of scientific researches that are related substantially to certain aspects of the problem identified as independent vectors of the current dissertation, the actual lack of homogeneity of normative and social aspects of civil society anticorruption activity was indicated.
It is practically confirmed that the effectiveness of implementation of measures, specialized for neutralization of the corruption factor in the activities of the public institutions is directly dependent on the level of intensity of activities of civil society institutions in the implementation of anti-corruption initiatives, and therefore the need of systematic study of the forms and methods of setting up the practical interaction of civil institutions with law enforcement bodies has been underlined.
Generalization of the scientific researches, attached to the problem of dissertation, has practically demonstrated the existing threatening tendency to identify anti-corruption activity as the exclusive prerogative of the state institutions. In turn, the abstraction of social institutions from realization of their full anticorruption potential, in the modern socio-legal entity, demonstrates the lack of due attention paid by scientists to the current issue, that, correlating with the various deficiencies of national legislation, provides all necessary conditions for the further exponential expansion of the phenomenon of corruption.
It is substantiated that intensification of participation of civil society institutions in the field of corruption prevention will be significantly contributed with the help of the following measures:
• Detailed normative regulation of the status, powers and forms of activities of public anti-corruption organizations;
• Improvement of certain norms of national law that are related to the prevention of corruption or related legal phenomenon that, to varying degrees, determine the methodology of anti-corruption activities;
• Revision of the existing model of local self-government, especially in the terms of more efficient process of plebiscite usage as a form of direct democracy, and will serve as a trigger for the mobilization of private participants in the prism of counteraction with the challenges facing the national legal system;
• Increasing transparency of public administration at all levels of functioning of the state apparatus and local self-government bodies in Ukraine;
• Implementation of the best practices of foreign countries in the field of anti-corruption activities.
The necessity of identification of methodology of civil society institutions assimilation in the prism of the subjects of corruption prevention is substantiated by a number of factors, among which the most important are the low effectiveness of modern methods of counteracting corruption offenses, confirmed with the permanent increase of the number of corrupt law offences, significant anticorruption potential of civil society, related with the necessity of national legal system modernization.
