Zozulia O. Entities of the Formation and Implementation of State Policy of Ukraine in the Sphere of National Minorities (Communities)

DOI: https://doi.org/10.33098/2078-6670.2025.19.31.133-142

Purpose. The purpose of the article is to analyze the legal bases of organizing the activities of entities of the Formation and Implementation of state policy in the sphere of national minorities (communities), determine the features of their legal status, as well as substantiate priority directions for improving the institutional mechanism for forming and implementing such state policy. Methodology. The methodology includes a comprehensive analysis and synthesis of available scientific and regulatory material, as well as the formulation of relevant conclusions and proposals. During the research, the following methods of scientific knowledge were used: formal-legal, comparative-legal, systemic-structural, logical-semantic and others. Results. It has been established that the effective formation and implementation of state policy in the sphere of national minorities directly depends on the presence of a coordinated, holistic institutional mechanism. Today, the organization of such an institutional mechanism is characterized by a ramification of the system of entities with different statuses, whose powers and activities often remain insufficiently balanced and coordinated, as well as by the significant role of national minorities themselves in the implementation of relevant state policy. Originality. It is substantiated that improving the legal status of entities of formation and implementation of state policy in the sphere of national minorities requires streamlining and detailing the legal bases of their functioning, eliminating existing gaps and collisions, strengthening coordination between executive bodies and civil society institutions, as well as ensuring responsibility and political impartiality in the formation and implementation of state policy in the sphere of national minorities. Practical significance. The results of the research can be used in law-making and law enforcement activities during the formation and implementation of state policy in the sphere of national minorities (communities).

Key words: institutional mechanism, entities, parliament, government, advisory bodies, state policy, national minorities (communities).

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