title: PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION AND MANAGEMENT: CHALLENGES AND PROSPECTS
abstract: In the conditions of decentralization of power, approaching the European principles of public administration, goals and objectives are being transformed, the main functions of public authorities are being implemented, development strategies of the Ukrainian state are being determined. The formation and development of the system of public authorities in the context of reforms requires a theoretical and methodological justification of the directions of the state, a normative definition of the func