Published: 15 February 2020
Subject . Issues of territorial organization of local self government in Ukraine. Top i c . Interim results of decentralization in Ukraine and prospects for the deepening of the reform of local government. P u r p o s e. Analysis of ways to solve problems related to the need for institutional transformations in the field of local self government, which raised the political crisis in Ukraine. Methodology. General methods of political analysis were used: system, structural and functional, comparative, socio cultural. Results . The political crisis has raised a layer of unresolved problems related to the need for institutional transformations in the field of local self government. Decentralization of Ukraine has begun in accordance with the European scenario. The article summarizes the interim results of decentralization and considers the prospects for deepening the reform of local self government. Applicationarea . Sphere of local self government reform. Conclusions . The reform implemented in Ukraine allowed local self government bodies to have extensive financial resources and independently solve local issues. However, decentralization is not complete, and there are a number of obstacles on its way: lack of experience and personnel for such transformations; enterprises are unevenly distributed across the territory of Ukraine, so different communities have different incomes; the problem is the very incompleteness of the reform. The reform of local self government in Ukraine will be deepened in the direction of decentralization in accordance with the European Charter of local self government. However, this is dangerous for underdeveloped regions that do not have profitable enterprises on their territory.