FORMATION OF THE MODERN PARADIGM OF PUBLIC GOVERNANCE ON THE BASIS OF THE CONCEPT OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

Abstract

The paper deals with investigation of functioning of public administration mechanisms by sustainable development of regions. The principles of development and functioning of a complex mechanism of public administration at the regional level, which characterizes the level of ability of the public administration system not only to operate in circumstances of social transformation, but also introduce innovative forms and methods of activity at the level of administrative-territorial units, are summarized on this base. It is ascertained that the strategic direction of the institutional changes in the public administration system in Ukraine is the transformation of the existing models of territorial management, introduction of the principles of decentralisation and subsidiarity, implementation of a positive foreign experience of regional management. It is proved that the theories of regional development belong to the integrated scientific direction that combines economic, social, cultural, environmental and other areas of functioning of the regions in order to form the system of concepts on the rule of their development and functioning. Based on the methodology of the theory of regional development it is possible to: 1) find out trends of regions development; 2) develop models and mechanisms for regional development; 3) predict the results of implementation of sectoral and local reforms; 4) produce algorithms of implementation of systemic reforms based on the foreign experience and principles of “Good governance”. The paper suggests conceptual approaches to the regional development strategies approval and implementation. It is established that a state as a bearer of national interests and constitutional guarantees should ensure continuity in the creation and constant improvement of conceptual foundations, institutional mechanisms for implementation of regional policy, implementation of specific local projects and programs. The author substantiates the content of the modern concept of sustainable development in the system of public administration, which under maintaining the established structural signs is defined and essentially changed in the legal, institutional and administrative-political senses. The dichotomous relationship of processes of regionalization, globalization and decentralization is proved. The conceptual-categorical apparatus of public administration as a science, in particular in clarifying the content of the concepts “mechanisms of public administration by sustainable development of the regions”, “public administration of regional development”, “sustainable development of the regions”, is designed taking into account the European experience of rationalization of the regional policy. There is the controversy of the contemporary transformational trend in the field of regional administration, caused by the institutional change of the system of regional management, contradiction of constitutional norms and provisions of the drafts in the field of regional management, undeveloped functional regional mechanisms. It is proved that public administration involves the operation of the universal organizational and legal mechanism of detection, coordination and realization of the needs and interests of the subjects of regional management based on the use of special tools and forms of the territorial development. It is found out that the defining role in the processes of sustainable development of the regions belongs to the policy of decentralization of national states that try to overcome the socio-economic and political disproportion in social development joining the processes of regionalization and globalization. Optimization of management of territories’ development, improvement of interaction in the system “center – region”, establishment of inter-regional cooperation between border regions and territories are defined as an important aspect of regional development. The theoretical and methodological factors of MPA SDR forming: the political-legal aspect; institutional aspect; public administrative aspect are distinguished. The reasons are given that according to the phenomenon of Europeanization of public administration the conceptual framework of the regional administration reforming in Ukraine should be developed on the base of the European norms and standards of the territorial administration.