democracy

Abstract. Abstract: Court accessibility, as an element of the rule of law, plays a significant role in ensuring citizens' right to a fair trial. In modern conditions, it is necessary to analyze the main barriers that may limit public participation in the judiciary. It is argued that removing such barriers can encourage more active recourse to the courts for the protection of legitimate rights and interests, as well as increase public involvement in the judicial process, both through direct participation in court proceedings and through public oversight mechanisms.

The article reveals the potential of public organizations in shaping the legal ideology of Ukrainian society. Revealing the role of the activities of public organizations in the formation of the legal ideology of Ukrainian society, the following functions of them in this process are determined: civil and professional socialization; communication function; regulatory, organizational, oppositional, protective, educational and personnel functions.

The article is dedicated to the research of peculiarities of impact of the coronavirus pandemic on electoral process and voting results on the example of 2020 local elections in Ukraine. Using the complex of general scientific, logical and empirical methods, the peculiarities and problems of holding elections to local self-government bodies of Ukraine in 2020, which took place in the conditions of the COVID-19 pandemic. The authors argue that Ukrainian authorities didn’t follow the path of most foreign countries and decided not to postpone the date of local elections in 2020.

               The article analyzes the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on election processes and election results.

Problem statement. Zaporizhzhya Sich and the Hetmanate became an important link between the early feudal states of Kievan Rus and the Galicia-Volyn principality and modern state-building processes in Ukraine. Therefore, it is especially important to study the experience of Cossack self-government in the formation of Ukrainian statehood as a component of the state tradition of Ukraine.

The conceptual analysis of issues concerning the institutionalization of democracy and its influence on public administration is made. Accordingly, it is proved that inability of institutionalization of democracy to function effectively leads to destructive changes in all spheres of social life.

The theoretical and methodological analysis of contemporary problems of building an effective state in Ukraine is made. The basic conceptual approaches to understanding problematic aspects of functioning of the Ukrainian state are identified. The main priorities for upholding principles of building an effective state in the context of systemic reforms in Ukraine are identified.

The article examines problems of populism in the context of public administration in Belarus. It should be noted that populism remains a topical phenomenon of social and political life of many countries. It is also observed that while populism makes a significant impact on policies of the countries with relatively little experience in functioning of democratic institutions, it also manifests itself quite visibly in the modern political space of ‘old’ democracies.

Problem setting. In democracies, the inherent right of citizens is the right to be informed about the policy pursued by the state, including not only the publicity and openness of government, but also the right to communicate public opinion on socially important issues to the government.

Problem setting. The flourishing of populism in recent years is caused, in our opinion, by an important factor – the current political bankruptcy of the Ukrainian left forces related, some way or another, to the Soviet past. Under the conditions of the authority concentration in the hands of the centrists and right centrists, the public request for social justice and more equal access of the citizens to the basic social benefits has lost common in the previous decades mechanisms of political representation.