Legal aspects of control in the relations between the state and civil society

The study of society in the legal aspect is related to the question of the state, as the latter is a form of organization of society. The state acts as an institution of society management. In this context, the relationship between society and the state is one of the complex problems of jurisprudence. It's about establishing effective ways and channels of communication. In the theory of management of socio-economic processes, control is considered as one of the main functions. The National Strategy for Civil Society Development for 2016–2020 contains the thesis that there is no effective public control over the activities of public authorities and local self-government bodies. Given this, the legal basis of the relationship between society and the state, the search for the most effective forms of public control over the state are urgent tasks of legal science. Control as a legal form of interaction between civil society and state bodies has been investigated. The theoretical, legal and practical principles of public control over the exercise of state power in Ukraine from the point of view of political science, economic and legal science are considered. The socio-economic and legal nature of the controlling function of public administration and the influence of control on the effectiveness of the activity of state bodies are analyzed. It has been found out that the control of civil society by the activity of state bodies is feedback between society and the state. The factors that influence the effectiveness of public control and the interaction of civil society institutions and state bodies are identified. Thus, civil society is a real social phenomenon that has a complex socio-political nature. Civil society carries out the social determination of many elements of people's way of life. Its role in a concentrated form is manifested in the demarcation of the legal means of all spheres of public life. The condition of public control is the transparency of government and the guarantee of the right to information. Civil society control over state bodies can be defined as activities carried out by civil society actors in the forms established by regulations on monitoring, evaluation of the results of the state apparatus to ensure compliance with certain criteria to improve the efficiency of public authorities. Keywords: control, legal form, civil society, state bodies, interaction.