International standards and citizens assessment of public administration and local government reform in Ukraine after 2014

Abstract

The aim of this research is to define the forms of implementation of the international standards of the public administration and local democracy in Ukraine after the Revolution of Dignity and to estimate the assessment of their implementation by the citizens. The scope of the research is defined by the support of the principle agreement that one of the main factors of the implementation of reforms, particularly in the field of public administration, was the factor of the international environment, firstly, of the European regional structures. The delay in adopting the necessary legislative decisions in the field of public administration, in particular decentralisation and implementation of administrative-territorial reform, and their financial, advisory and communication support, resulted in unsatisfactory evaluation of this process by citizens, reducing the level of their support for these reforms, despite the fact that in the first Post-Maydan years they were the most popular among Ukrainians.