Summary. Formulated proposals for the improvement of the legislative framework which regulates the organization of public authorities at the district level in the context of decentralization.

Key words: decentralization, interaction, public authorities, local government bodies, amalgamation.

Summary. The article considers the basic models of implementation of industrial policy in Ukraine. Determined that the priority of industrial policy is the development and introduction of innovations and formation of investment demand for domestic products. The model of formation of the mechanism of implementation of industrial policy.

Key words: state, industrial policy, investment policy, model implementation of industrial policy, innovation.

Annotation: The article summarizes existing approaches to the theory and practice of development cooperation, its state regulation and the main theoretical and methodological provisions of the state support of development of cooperation in the agricultural sector. Defined the basic idea of agricultural cooperation and the factors of its cause. Identified the key problems of functioning and development of agricultural service cooperatives. Established approaches to the development of state regulation of cooperative societies in terms of sustainable development of rural territories, identifies the problematic issues that require special attention. The basic directions and prospects of effective government regulation of cooperation in the agricultural sector for sustainable socio-economic development of rural areas.

Key words: сooperation, agricultural cooperation, agrarian sector, industrial cooperative, servicing cooperative, state regulation.

Summary: In the article the features of the foreign experience of state regulation of transport services and found some tools that should be used in the formation of public regulation of the transport market in Ukraine.

Key words: state regulation, transport services, transport market, transport infrastructure.

Summary: The article suggests defining the content of the concept of "pension system". The essence of the pension system as a complex open organizational integrity is substantiated. Features the origin and functioning of the subsystems of the pension system of Ukraine are considered, taking into account the manifestation of principles, regularities, hypotheses of the general theory of systems. A model of the pension system was developed at the present stage of development of the Ukrainian society.

Key words: pension system, pension insurance, pension, reforming of the pension system of Ukraine, subsystems of the pension system, general theory of systems.

Actual problems of modern science: Abstracts of XVІІ International scientific-practical conference (Moscow - Astana - Kharkiv - Vienna, March 30, 2017)

Abstract. To build an effective system of taxation necessary to analyze risks. The article investigates factors that affect the yield of income tax. The main factors that have a direct impact on the income tax, and proposed ways to improve the collection of this tax, based on international experience.

Keywords: income tax, tax system, income benefits, poverty, purchasing power, foreign experience.

Annotation: The ways to support development of cooperation in agrarian sector have been determined; the relevant practical recommendations to advance state agrarian policy have been provided.

Key words: agrarian policy, agrarian state, agricultural cooperation.

Summaru: The article is devoted to the issues of mass communication functioning and its influence on social management systems. Close attention is paid to mass communication characteristic as an information reflection in society. An author makes a conclusion that mass communication has an influence on management system in case of general people’s activity directed on specific results achievement.

Keywords: mass communication, management system, information, society.

Summary: The article studies result-based management as the key concept for development and implementation of a modern sociocentric model of monitoring and control in public administration. Its main principles and approaches have been determined. The necessity of use of the given concept has been substantiated.

Keywords: Result-based management, government, public administration, feedback, control, monitoring, community.

Summary: The article describes the main methods of state regulation of railway transport as a natural monopoly, namely the establishment of a special authority regulation, direct management of enterprises, competitive market access. It is determined that the main tool to curb railroad monopolies is increase competition by ensuring free entry into the market of rail transportation.

Key words: state regulation of railway transport, natural monopoly, competition.

Actual problems of Economics and Finance: Abstracts of VІIІ International scientific-practical conference (Kyiv - St.Petersburg - Vienna, January 31, 2017)

Summary. Basic models of local and central authorities’ interaction in the sphere of public policy formation and realization is analyzed. Main principles of this interaction are defined.

Keywords: local authorities, central authorities, interaction, public policy, foreign experience.

Annotation. This article explores the principles of transparency and openness as an integral part of public administration.

We aim to clarify the core ideas of the principles of transparency and openness, identify their essential traits and determine the ways in which observing the principles affects the relations between public authorities and society.

During the conduction of our study we found out that the legislative approval of governmental transparency is the result of years of development in countries with liberal-democratic social and political systems. We also investigated the impact of transparency during the core historical stages of state development.

We found that the introduction of the term «transparency» in the scientific community and daily life is caused by the concept of «open society», which is characterized by the freedom of sharing and obtaining information from public authorities, provided that reasonable statutory restrictions are established.

We also analysed the ideas of foreign and Ukrainian scientists on the subject. Our analysis concluded that the term «transparency» is the most popular way of characterising the external activities of the public authorities and the possibility of holding them accountable in modern terminology. However, both Ukrainian and foreign scientists use such terms as «openness» and «transparence» as interchangeable with «transparency».

We classified the core traits of the concepts of «transparency», «openness», and «transparence» which was crucial in the process of developing the category system of this paper.

We highlighted the differences in dictionary definitions of the terms «transparency», «openness» and «transparence».

We determined that the main objectives of the public authorities is the formation, nourishment and realisation of the transparency and openness principles.

We explored the theory and practice of the principles of transparency and openness in such areas as public administration, administrative law, economics, political science, sociology, law, which allowed us to witness an interdisciplinary understanding of those principles and further develop of this paper.

We concluded that public authorities declare the principles of transparency and openness on their own in the self-regulating legislative acts. However, it should be noted that none of those contain a clear definition of these principles. In most cases they are used without explanation or are equated with the principles of  publicity.

We have also compared the achievements of the Ukrainian and foreign scientists, which allowed us to reveal and explore the core differences in the understanding of the principles of transparency and openness. This indicates that the priority for Ukrainian scientists should lie in meaningful review of the principles of transparency and openness in accordance with the recommendations of the European research programs, the Council of Europe and general legislation.

Keywords: transparency, openness, transparence, principles, public authority.

Summary: The article considers the problems of social security in the state. Found that education and health are the most important factors influencing the quality of life of the population. Also suggested that the main priority of the state in providing social security, should be the development of education and health.

Key words: social safety, quality of life, society, state, personality, social policy, education, health, information security.

Summary. The main aspects of the creation of an effective state system of crisis response were considered (the network of situational centers of the central executive bodies). The main directions of improvement, increasing the efficiency and quality of management decisions to ensure the national security of Ukraine were determined.

Abstract.Theories of local self-government bodies and state executive organs interaction in the sphere of public policy formation and realization is analyzed. Main model of this interaction is defined.

Keywords: local self-government bodies, state executive organs, interaction, public policy.

Abstract. Summary of existing methodological approaches to the analysis and evaluation of public administration, demonstrates the need for thorough and objective assessment of selection parameters functioning of the regional system, and based on them develop the methodology of calculation of integrated indicators that reflect and evaluate the level of sustainable ecological and socio-economic development . Given the strengths and weaknesses of existing methodological approaches, in this study, we propose a technique analysis of the region and for its condition, for which settlement is subsequently serve as information base for future prediction assess the effectiveness of public administration.

Keywords: governance, methodology, analysis, evaluation, integrated indicator.

Summary:  The  basic  aspects  and criteria of classification system of a cross-border cooperation’s forms are investigated and analyzed.

Key words: forms of a cross-border cooperation, border region, cluster, euroregion, cooperation.

In the article the modern approaches to the improvement of the legal mechanism of state regulation of state and communal ownership of land turnover in Ukraine, in particular: system, process, situational and strategic. Identify practical ways to improve the legal components of the mechanism of state regulation of state and communal ownership of land in Ukraine.

Key words:  land circulation, government regulation, legal framework, areas of improvement, modern approaches.