Aspekti Publìčnogo Upravlìnnâ (Oct 2019)

Priority directions of constitutional, political and legal renewal of public power, governance in Ukraine

  • Mykola Pukhtynskyy

DOI
https://doi.org/10.15421/151933
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 6-7
pp. 28 – 37

Abstract

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The article explores the current problems of the state of constitutional regulation and priority areas of constitutional, political and legal renewal of public power, governance in Ukraine. It is emphasized that the political system of Ukraine, the system of public authority, the social component of the society remain unbalanced, do not correspond to the main constitutional principle of a democratic, social, rule of law, until now the updating of the Constitution, the constitutional regulation of social relations is not of conceptual and systemic character. In this connection, the defects of implementation of the norms of certain constitutional and legal institutions are traced.Proposals for new approaches to the transformation of public power are justified, based on the new paradigm of governance in Ukraine - the paradigm of good governance. It gives a description of the priority directions of public authority renewal, governance in the areas of: modernization of the Constitution of Ukraine; democratization of social relations; solving war and peace, defense and national security; economic development; deoligarchization; a real guarantee of the enjoyment of the fundamental rights, freedoms and obligations of the individual and the citizen; reviewing the basics of Parliament's organization and activities; development of legislation on the status of the President of Ukraine; political and legal innovations in the sphere of executive power; constitutional and legal registration of the reform of the administrative-territorial structure of Ukraine, transformation of local selfgovernment; continuation and clarification of judicial reform, etc. It is concluded that the implementation of priority areas of constitutional, political and legal renewal of public power, governance in Ukraine should involve a comprehensive transformation of the system domination of the State power. For this purpose it is advisable: to elaborate and to discuss widely at the public level the conceptual foundations of the organization and implementation of governance in Ukraine, based on the principles of "good governance"; to determine the concept of systematic renewal, modernization of the Constitution of Ukraine, without which attempts to reform the Basic Law will be futile; Introduce a system of public monitoring and control over the functioning of public authority to modernize it using traditional and advanced electronic forms of direct democracy.

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