TO THE QUESTIONNAIRE OF THE ADMINISTRATIVE-TERRITORIAL DEVICE REFORM AND FORMATION OF JOINT TERRITORIAL GROUPS

Abstract

The main criteria of communities forming are revealed and meaning of community is found in the article. The reasons for the inhibition of administrative-territorial system reforming in Ukraine, largely due to a lack of self-sufficiency of the proposed options for local communities are found. The necessity of reforming the administrative-territorial system with the latest principles: settlement, territorial, demographic, self-governing, social and economic, are grounded. Advantages and threats in reforming the administrative-territorial system of the initiative "from above" or "below", especially in the agricultural regions of the type of development are found out. The necessity of a comprehensive approach to reform that should combine not only the administrative and territorial changes, but financial reform, tax systems, stimulating economic activity and the transition to the paradigm of multi functioning of settlements are identified. Expediency of the cluster approach to forming communities that will enable integrated development of settlements due to a synergistic effect as a result of close cooperation and interdependence within the network is grounded. The stability of relationships in the system is proved and the importance of taking into account settlement and territorial principles in the formation of communities is explained on example of the historical cluster of villages Denisiv, Kupchyntsi, Yastrubovo of Kozova district, Ternopil region. The importance of self-government and self-sufficiency of the community, which is possible only through voluntary associations of settlements with well-established relationships within settlement systems is proved.