Political Impact on the Decentralization Reform in Ukraine

Abstract

The essence of the work is the study of political influence and its selfish manifestations by the people’s deputies of Ukraine on the process of formation and functioning of united territorial communities. In our work, political influence is revealed as an element of indirect political agitation of deputies in the district through the mechanism of financing and allocating state subventions from the state budget of Ukraine to communities, which is a very popular and effective tool of direct influence on residents of united territorial communities. The first section of our study is devoted to the study and interpretation of the concept of political influence, and the methods by which it can be explored. The second section attempts to analyze the gaps in decentralization reform that have made it possible to spread such selfish political influence. The third section contains the empirical part of our study, where we obtained the results of the interdependence of political influence of people's deputies with the volume of issued state subventions of communities in 2020.