Kostiuk N. P. The application of law by the executive authorities in Ukraine: issues of theory and practice. – Qualified scientific work on the rights of the manuscript.

The Dissertation for the Degree of Candidate of Law, in specialty 12.00.01 - "Theory and History of State and Law; History of Political and Legal Studies". - University of Economics and Law «KROK», Kyiv, 2020.

The dissertation is devoted to the research of the theoretical and practical issues of the application of the norms of law by the executive authorities in Ukraine.

On the basis of the results of the complex analysis in the scientific work the features, functions, principles and stages of the application of the norms of law are highlighted. It is stated that the principle of the rule of law is the fundamental principle, the process peculiarities of the application of the law norms by the executive authorities are revealed, the ways of improving the practice of the applying the rules of law by the executive bodies are determined. A particular attention is devoted to the study of the administrative and socio-legal nature of the application of law rules. Considering the managerial aspect of the application process, the categories developed by the science of management can be used in the theory of the application of the rules of law: management stages; managerial information, management decision.

As a result of the research, three stages of the development were identified in terms of understanding the concept of "the application of the norms of law": pre-revolutionary, Soviet, post-Soviet.

It is argued that one of the most important and effective guarantees of the protection of human rights and freedoms in the rule of law should be the legal mechanism regulating the conflict of public and private interests in the application of the rules of law, especially when the law gives grounds for interpreting its contents both in the interests of the state, and in the interests of a citizen.

It is indicated that the specific processes of applying the rules of law differ from each other, both in the composition of participants, and in the organizational and legal forms and methods of implementation. In some cases, the application of the rules of law is the action of an official who has a simple nature and does not require a special procedure for finding out the situation of life and its legal solution, and in other cases, the application of the rules of law is a complex sequence-developing set of right-realizing actions and acts of its various participants, in which power and organizational actions and acts of officials of state bodies determine its origin, course and completion.

The acts of the application of the norms of law have been investigated. It is determined that they realize the function of individual legal regulation and act as a means of operational control.

The author argues that in modern conditions the issue of increasing the efficiency of the application of the norms of law by the executive authorities is important, which can be achieved by introducing monitoring of the application of the norms of law of the executive power, assessing the response of the state executive authorities to public initiatives, generalizing information on complaints and suggestions of the citizens, by analyzing the means of accessibility of the information about the activities of the executive bodies and their decisions, by collecting information about the conducting of public hearings and discussions of the draft legal acts.

The conclusions and proposals formulated in the dissertation will help to increase the efficiency of the application of the law by the executive authorities.

A set of practical recommendations for the optimization of the application of the norms of law by the executive authorities has been proposed. The dissertation is based on the correlation-regression model of the source analysis.

The necessary methodology for the application of the rules of law, the object of which will be the activity itself of the application of the rules of law with the aim of improving its efficiency and developing the ways of optimization.

Кeywords: the application of the norms of law, the efficiency of application of the norms of law, the principles of the application of the norms of law, the acts of the application of the norms of law of the executive power, the application of the rules of law, the practice of the application of the rules of law.