THEORETICAL APPROACHES TO TERRITORIAL POWER ORGANIZATION AS A PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION OBJECT

Abstract

The research is relevant because it is necessary to substantiate the theoretical approaches to territorial power organization as one of the key factors of public administration. Efficient functioning of the representational or electoral authority at the micro, community, district and regional levels determines territorial development, fair distribution of the resources necessary for reconstruction amidst and after the war. Positive outcome of the efficient managerial approaches is likely to facilitate sustainable and unhindered territorial development. To understand the territorial power organization concept, we need to outline the theoretical hallmarks determining choices of the ways to ensure efficient territorial power organization at various levels. The research paper exhibits various theoretical approaches, including the systems theory, the organization theory, the network theory in order to be able to research the territorial organization of authority through the lens of the peculiar qualities consistent with the theoretical approaches within the frames of public administration. The specified approaches help us understand the available potential of qualities identified within each theoretical approach. Reformation of the administrative territorial governance, establishment of new boundaries of the administrative territorial units, transfer to decentralization recognized as the most successful reform in Ukraine, including by the international community, call for analysis of the classic approaches and search of the new aspects of formation of the theoretical approaches adapted to our time and aimed at practical application. In this context, the government’s primary objectives are to manage efficiency of the territorial power organization systems, complete the decentralization reform, adapt to the outside aggression environment, rebuild whatever has been destroyed during the war. Notably, today’s European integration vector of transformation of the territorial power organization requires analysis, comprehensive research of the existing European practice embracing a substantial scientific and practical study of the specified issue and sufficient experience of implementation of the certain approaches whenever it is feasible, and this will determine the choices of further scientific research topics.