LEGAL ASPECTS OF COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT IN UKRAINE: PRACTICE OF INTERNATIONAL POTENTIAL

The article, based on the study of the essential and substantive features of the definition of «community», detailed acquaintance with the legal features and forms of territorial communities, identifies approaches to their formation in Ukraine, taking into account the positive international experience. Conceptual approaches and risks of implementation of administrative decentralization, world experience of realization of reforms of this type are considered, features of formation of domestic model of decentralization are clarified, and also the institutional basis of its realization in recent years in Ukraine is considered. It turns out that there is no universal effective model of organization of the territorial community. The practice of reforming administrative decentralization is ambiguous, differentiated, due to a number of factors. The analysis of international practice has demonstrated the existence of different approaches that can serve as an example to consider in the process of improving the existing system of decentralization in Ukraine.