Morgun V. Constitutional and legal ensuring of the material and financial foundations of local self-government in Ukraine and foreign countries

The dissertation is devoted to the research of constitutional and legal ensuring of material and financial foundations of local self - government in Ukraine and foreign states, and also to definition of prospects of improvement of the legislation and law enforcement practice in Ukraine in this sphere. The dissertation provides a theoretical generalization and proposes a new solution to an important scientific problem – the development of theoretical and methodological principles, scientific and methodological approaches and substantiation of practical recommendations for providing material and financial foundations of local government in the decentralization of power in Ukraine. Doctrinal and normative sources of local self-government, research methodology, historiography of development, concept and content, constitutional and legal regulation of local self-government in Ukraine as the right of residents of territorial communities to independently resolve issues of local significance within the Constitution and laws of Ukraine are analyzed. The focus is on the historical retrospective of understanding the essence of local self-government, its theories of origin, the essential characteristics of the phenomena of local self-government and territorial communities are noted. The theoretical foundations of the organization and activity of territorial communities, the system of local self-government in general, have been revealed, and a number of its models have been singled out. Adherence to the concept of local self-government, which is based on the natural and inalienable right of communities to self-governance, limited state intervention in community affairs, is substantiated.