Coherencing the competences of local government authorities and executive bodies in the context of public administration

Problem setting. An important prerequisite and key to successful implementation of the strategic course for the implementation of European standards of living in Ukraine and its entry into the leading positions in the world is the reform of public administration and decentralization in order to create an effective, transparent, open, flexible structure of public administration, transition from the centralized model of government in the state, ensuring the capacity of local self-government and building an effective system of territorial organization of government in Ukraine. Achieving this goal requires the establishment of a system of public administration, which ensures the coherence of competences of local government authorities, executive bodies and civil society institutions.

Recent research and publications analysis. While researching the problem of coherencing the competences of local government authorities and executive bodies in the context of establishing public administration system in Ukraine, it is advisable to use the scientific achievements of foreign and domestic scientists concerning the following issues: theoretical and methodological foundations of social transformations (D. Bell, N.Hrazhevska, O. Gromyko, O. Zhuravliov, L. Yevstigneeva, S. Erokhin, T. Zaslavska, E. Ivchenko, N. Makasheva, I. Markovych, M. Minenko, Y. Osipov, G. Pochenchuk, E. Toffler, S. Fillipova, P. Shtomka, Y. Yakovets); different aspects of competences of local government authorities and executive bodies (M. Bajmuratov, O. Batanov, Y. Boiko, Y. Buhlak, T. Buriak, I. Hrytsiak, O. Dniprov, M. Karpa, V. Kravchenko, O. Kuchabskyi, M. Orzikh, M. Oslavskyi, V. Pohorilko, O. Sushynskyi, V. Shapoval).

Highlighting previously unsettled parts of the general problem. In the context of establishing public administration in Ukraine, it is advisable to study the problem of coherence of the competences of local government authorities and executive bodies as a systemic phenomenon in the plane of the transformation process.

Paper main body. To be aware of the phenomenon of transformation in the public-managerial aspect, it is advisable to start from its classical interpretations. As a result, the systematic nature of the transformation of competences of local government authorities and executive bodies in the context of public administration has been revealed. It is a part of the transformation of society through decentralization of power, reform of public administration, local self-government and territorial organization of power, development of civil society and democracy. The very process of establishing public administration in Ukraine is also a subsystem of social transformation, and the problem of coherence of competences (managerial actions) of different entities becomes of universal importance.

The coherence of managerial competences of the entities (state, local self-government, civil society institutions) to ensure the processes of social development forms the conceptual basis for public administration itself.

There is substantiated the thesis about the necessity to ensure in conditions of establishing public administration in Ukraine the coordinated managerial influence on the development of social processes through not only optimal (harmonized) distribution of competences of subjects of state, self-governing and civic authority by means of their centralization, decentralization, deconcentration, delegation, subsidiarity and also coherence in the carrying out competences, as they are not only the determining elements of the legal status of a public authority, but they also are as a complex of its full powers to exercise the power as means of successful management. It is possible to achieve the maximum effect of the coherence of the activity of public authorities if the condition of regulating legal statuses and competences of the subjects are settled on the general conceptual principles of the public administration system.

The general structural and functional model of distribution of competences of local government authorities and executive bodies is abstracted; its main shortcomings are analyzed.

Conclusions of the research and prospects for further studies. It is established that harmonizing competences of local government authorities and executive bodies in the context of public administration represents two interrelated processes: optimal allocation of competences of the subjects of state, self-government and civic authorities by means of their centralization, decentralization, deconcentration, delegation, subsidiarity; the coordination of actions of these entities in carrying out their competences. The coherence of competences of public authorities is a mean of ensuring both their successful activity and the effectiveness of public administration as a whole. Achieving the greatest effect of the coherence of the activity of public authorities seems possible only if regulation of legal statuses and competences of the subjects are settled on the general conceptual principles of the public administration system. Taking into account the importance of the personal factor in the processes of transformation of competences of local government authorities and executive bodies in the context of establishing an effective system of public administration in Ukraine, it is advisable to further focus the scientific research on the problem of influence of leadership skills of a leader on the implementation of the above-mentioned transformations in the activity of a public authority.