civil society

Civil Control over Implementation of the Commitments under the EU-UKRAINE Association Agreement (Research Article)

In the active phase of institutionalization of civil society institutions, the enhanced capacity of civil society and its role in the European integration processes of Ukraine, it is noteworthy that the analysis of civil control mechanisms in the context of execution by Ukraine of the Association Agreement is critical. The author structured the modern theoretical approaches to the understanding of civil society and substantiated the need for the active involvement of civil society in the implementation of the Association Agreement between Ukraine and the EU.

The problem of defining the concept of public power in the theory of state and law

The issues of the public authority nature and content are analyzed, and the scientific approaches of this concept understanding are characterized in this scientific article. On the basis of this, the public power structure, features and the main implementation forms are clarified. In particular, attention is drawn to the correlation of socio-political, state and public authorities.

National sovereignty and problems of its realization in terms of democratic transformation in Ukraine: theoretical and legal aspect

The article deals with the research on understanding the peculiarities of ensuring national sovereignty principle of implementation by public authorities in terms of democratic transformation and formation of new law and order based on the modern constitutionalism values. Legal awareness peculiarities in the post-soviet period and certain aspects of the legal mechanism of providing national sovereignty are analyzed by the author. 

Legal ideology functional purpose: theoretical and legal analysis

The article is devoted to the problems of the functional purpose of legal ideology. This article provides a comprehensive analysis of the main functions of this important social phenomenon. The role of legal ideology in shaping civil society and legal system. It has been found that the functions of legal ideology carry legal effect on social life by legal, moral, and psychological factors. The role of legal ideology in the legislative, economic, social and cultural processes. Revealed its necessity in the process of building an independent, democratic, social state ruled by law.

Legal basis of civil society and its interaction with the public authori

The main theoretical legal principles and prerequisites of the concept of civil society forming in the theoretical and legal thought, the current state of interaction between civil society and public authorities are examined. The problems facing towards the introduction and implementation of democratic values of civil society, and solutions through reasonable balance of interests of public authorities and civil society in Ukraine are analyzed.
 

Civil society and its legal values in a democratic transformation: experience of Ukraine

This article explores the concept of legal values of civil society and its relationship with the legal consciousness of citizens and the democratic transformation. Such basic legal values as freedom, equality, justice, private property, protection of rights and freedoms of man and citizen are characterized. It analyzed the need for a clearly developed and rationalized democratic ideology as the foundation for the further development of legal values of civil society in Ukraine is analyzed.
 

Civil society development in accordance with the requirement of the european institutional action

The article analyzes the development of Ukrainian civil society in accordance with the requirements of European institutional progress. It is found out that under the rule of law state power becomes the most important tool by which civil society provides optimal conditions for self-development. It is in this context that the state acts as a public-power institution that manages civil society as a whole and is called upon to act in the general interest.