GENERAL TRENDS IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF SCIENTIFIC THOUGHT ON THE PRINCIPLES OF THE FUNCTIONING OF CENTRAL EXECUTIVE BODIES IN THE PERIOD FROM 2010 TO 2013

The article analyzed the general trends in the development of scientific thought on the principles of the functioning of central executive bodies in the period from 2002 to 2013. It was emphasized that this time period is characterized by the following features: 1) it testified to a gradual departure from the command-administrative system of management, which permeated all executive bodies during the Soviet period, and to a transition to democratic principles of functioning; 2) it testified to the further evolution of executive bodies both at the intellectual level (monographs, dissertations, scientific articles) and at the practical level (development and adoption of relevant regulatory legal acts); 3) the development of scientific thought during this period took place under the auspices of administrative reform, but without a significant influence of political goals and interests on research areas. It is proposed to highlight among the studies of the features of the functioning of executive bodies in the period from 2002 to 2013 works that were devoted to: 1) the functioning of the executive branch as one of the branches of state power; 2) one type of central executive bodies, in particular, ministries, local executive bodies or one central executive body (for example, the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine,the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine, etc.); 3) one type of activity of executive bodies (for example, rule-making, jurisdictional, public service activities, etc.); 4) the activity of one of the subsystems of executive bodies in a specific sphere of public relations, in which these bodies exercise specific powers (for example, procedural activities of internal affairs bodies in proceedings in cases of administrative offenses, etc.); 5) internal relations in the system of executive bodies (in particular, disciplinary relations, legal status of heads in the system of executive bodies, etc.). It has been established that from a historical point of view, the effectiveness of the activities of ministries has always been negatively affected by the following factors: 1) the absence of a holistic, scientifically based and effective model of the mechanism of relations between the branches of state power; 2) the one-sided perception by certain political forces of the directions of reforming the executive bodies; 3) the uncertainty of the place and role of the President of Ukraine in the mechanism of functioning of the executive bodies; 4) the imperfection of national legislation, which establishes the administrative and legal statusof executive bodies; 5) the low level of political and legal culture of both the population and officials of state bodies.