STATE REGULATION OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT IN THE CONTEXT OF DECENTRALIZATION

Ensuring the effectiveness of the functioning and interaction of public authorities on the basis of the Constitution of Ukraine necessitates further optimization of the system of relations between different types and levels of government. As a state governed by the rule of law, Ukraine is inevitably in such a coordinate system, where both centralization and decentralization are immanently present. This is indicated, in particular, by the provisions of the Constitution of Ukraine, in which the unity of the system of public authorities is balanced by the delimitation of subjects of jurisdiction and powers between public authorities and local governments; a single state power is exercised on the basis of division into functional branches and corresponding independent authorities. The boundaries of centralization and decentralization are also defined at the highest constitutional level. However, the constitutional parameters of decentralization of state power through further legal regulation, which manifested itself in various legally significant forms and often proceeds from the tendentious interpretation of constitutional provisions, led to significant deviations. This negatively affected the gradualness and effectiveness of state building in Ukraine. The reasons lie in the absence of systematic scientific and legal developments from the standpoint of the constitutional and legal doctrine of such a capacious phenomenon as the decentralization of state power. Rural development in the conditions of decentralization has its own peculiarities. We can say that decentralization for the village has both advantages and disadvantages. To better understand the promising areas of rural development, foreign experience on this issue should be taken into account, analyzing and comparing with the existing picture of the settlement and the situation in the country as a whole. The findings of the study can be used as a methodological basis for further improvement of ideas about decentralization of state power as one of the important factors in optimizing public power in Ukraine and improving the efficiency of the state in the strategic perspective.