Visn. Nac. Akad. Nauk Ukr. 2015. (8): 58-70.

V.M. Lytvyn

ADMINISTRATIVE-TERRITORIAL DIVISION OF UKRAINE: RETROSPECTIVE OVERVIEW AND PROSPECTS OF REFORM

Abstract:
The article justifies the author's views on the inevitability and urgency of the long delayed administrative-territorial reform in Ukraine. The main directions of scientific knowledge evolution about the territorial organization of Ukrainian society are traced, a number of innovative approaches to restoration of its territorial-administrative structure in historical retrospective are proposed. The talks about decentralization, in the author’s view, may end at the level of political rhetoric, if not backed up by real action towards optimizing the administrative-territorial structure.

Language of article: ukrainian.