UDC 332.3:911.37; JEL J18, O20, R12
Zhuk, P. V., & Siryk, Z. O. (2023). Reforma detsentralizatsiyi ta pytannya upravlinnya ahlomeratsiyamy v Ukrayini [The decentralization reform and the issues of agglomeration management in Ukraine]. Rehional'na ekonomika - Regional Economy, 108 (2), 34-40. DOI: https://doi.org/10.36818/1562-0905-2023-2-3 [in Ukrainian].
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Authors



Zhuk Petro Volodymyrovych

Ph.D. of Economics, Senior Researcher

Leading Researcher of the Department of regional ecological policy and environmental management of the Dolishniy Institute of Regional Research of NAS of Ukraine

Contacts: pzhuk@ukr.net, (032)270-7037

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Siryk Zenoviy Orestovych

Ph.D. of Technical Sciences, Associate Professor

Associate Professor of the Department of fundamental disciplines of the Lviv Branch of Dnipro National University of Railway Transport named after Academician V. Lazaryan; Associate Professor of the Department of administrative and financial management of the Institute of Administration And Postgraduate Education of the Lviv Polytechnic National University

Contacts: zsiryk62@gmail.com

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Resume

The issues of agglomeration management are considered. The authors point out the difficulties in balancing the interests of administrative-territorial entities operating within their borders and the forms of agglomeration management used in the world practice. Special attention is paid to the advantages of merging agglomerations into separate administrative-territorial units with the corresponding acquisition of legal personality by agglomerations. The article assesses the implementation of the national decentralization reform in terms of voluntary consolidation of territorial communities located within agglomerations with regional centers and cities with special status as their cores. The authors find that the relevant opportunities for agglomerations to acquire legal personality have been realized to a small extent. In particular, seven cities have remained within their boundaries and haven’t included any of the neighboring communities and their settlements in the consolidation. Most of the other oblast centers have included 1-2 settlements in the process of consolidation. Only three regional centers have created territorial communities covering 50-60% of the agglomeration area; five others have created communities covering 25-40%. The article argues that the reasons for the low rate of utilization of the opportunities provided by the reform for solving the problems of agglomeration management through the acquisition of legal personality in the form of a territorial community are both subjective and objective in nature: low activity of the oblast center authorities in initiating community consolidations in their areas of attraction; unwillingness of the representatives of governing bodies of administrative-territorial units to lose power in the process of consolidation; concerns of the residents of communities adjacent to the oblast centers of losing influence on decision-making on the development of their community, management of land plots, unregulated at the legislative level issues of protection of the interests of the residents of communities that consolidate with the oblast center, their guaranteed representation in the elected bodies of the consolidated territorial community; risks of ignoring the interests of the attached communities by the governing bodies of the communities of the oblast centers; risks of making suboptimal decisions on the ways of territorial development with the restriction of the representation of stakeholders in the decision-making process.

Keywords:

agglomeration, forms of management, legal personality, oblast/regional center, decentralization reform, territorial communities

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