In the first section «Theoretical and methodological aspects of the study of political and managerial elite in a post-industrial society» the elite is seen as a proto-elite group of deep state, concentrating and using resources and capabilities of the state and society to meet their own needs. populism, dysfunction.
The relationship between formal and informal institutions of the political elite allows us to assess the effectiveness of its activities, the peculiarities of development, to analyze the system of formation. Elite formation is a complex system consisting of the following elements:
a) recruitment mechanisms, which are characterized by institutional features of the political elite through inheritance, blood relationship, property ownership, professional competence, education, party affiliation, personal devotion and seniority;
b) recruitment channels, which are ways to move up in the hierarchy of power
The second section, «Administrative Reform in Ukraine: Public Administration Analysis», emphasizes that public administration reform has played an important role in regulating the transition from a command to a market economy in many post-socialist countries in the decades following the collapse of Soviet governance. It turned out that those countries have made significant socio-economic progress, which have managed to make their public sector more sensitive to the strategic needs of society.
Decentralization, the transfer of power from the center to the lower levels of government, would mean a vertical redistribution of power. However, a simple transfer of power is not enough to obtain higher efficiency of public administration; the national government itself must be reformatted. Ukraine urgently needed to reform the outdated four-tier administrative-territorial system inherited from the Soviet past. To date, all attempts to implement administrative-territorial reform have been unsuccessful and have not gone beyond the development of concepts that were quite contradictory in nature
The third section, «Political and Administrative Elites in the Conditions of Administrative Reform in Ukraine», emphasizes that the structure and staff of the central government differ from country to country. In some countries, all central government officials are civil servants; in others, administrative support staff are civil servants, or only those who perform operational tasks are civil servants. However, in other countries, the same organization includes civil servants as well as employees with an employment contract. Some governments appoint a very small group of civil servants to the senior civil service (SBS). This elite group is considered the core of the civil service, located very close to the executive branch, forming a layer between politicians and the civil service as a whole. Thus, the introduction of the system of higher civil service (SBS) appeared about a decade after the beginning of the transition period in the CEE countries
