In order to build effective democratic governance under the Council of Europe Action Plan for Ukraine, local governments and elected representatives must have the knowledge and tools to manage modern and efficient resources, and local governments in general must increase their transparency, activities to strengthen citizens' trust in local political institutions. In its ambitious plans to implement effective governance, the Government of Ukraine is working to create a modern system of local self-government that promotes the dynamic development of regions and transfers as much power as possible to the level closest to citizens - communities. The article is devoted to the issue of ensuring the sustainable development of local self-government in Ukraine on the basis of the experience of building the system of local self-government in the European countries. Foreign experience with the existing system of local governments of Ukraine is compared. Local governments are classified into representative and executive. The practice of organizing their activities is studied. Both regional and local representative bodies and municipalities were studied. Different types of individual and collegial executive bodies of local self-government of foreign countries, methods of their formation, management models are given. The real state of the results of the reform of local self-government and decentralization, as well as the administrative-territorial system in Ukraine has been established. The main positive features of the system of local self-government bodies of foreign countries are identified and options for implementing sustainable development methods for self-government of Ukraine are proposed, including through effective state control, election of key local government officials, codification of local self-government legislation and balancing the status and powers of representatives and executive bodies of local self-government.

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У статті досліджено законодавчі прогалини при формуванні виконавчих комітетів сільських об’єднаних територіальних громад. Проаналізовано необхідні проектні ініціативи щодо практичного врегулювання законодавцем механізму утворення, юридичний статус, персональний склад, передумови для належного функціонування виконавчих органів місцевого самоврядування – виконавчих комітетів сільських, селищних, міських рад.

n this article, the author presents the institution of candidate guarantee deposit in local elections in Ukraine, in particular, a theoreticaland retrospective analysis of the use of candidate guarantee in elections is carried out, the goals and circumstances of the introduction,political expediency in the formation of representative bodies of power and local self-government are analyzed. The author ofthe article draws attention to the inner essence and size of the electoral deposit in comparison with national elections to representativebodies of state power and local self-government, setting out the positions of national constitutional and international courts. The authorexamines the definitions and the legal nature of the concept of elections, electoral law, electoral process, pledge as a civil institution inconstitutional law, indicators for calculating the candidate guarantee deposit in the electoral process, the use of the candidate guarantee deposit in accordance with the rules of electoral legislation. This scientific article is intended to show both the scientific and philosophi -cal and the practical substantiation of the essence of the institution of a candidate guarantee deposit in the electoral process in local electionsin Ukraine. Along with the development of Ukrainian society, Ukrainian statehood and democratic institutions of Ukraine, thenecessity for changes in electoral legislation has serious reasons. The author considers that in Ukraine the institution of a candidateguarantee deposit in local elections and in national elections is an indicator of the “public quality” of a candidate regarding his possibilityto participate in elections and the seriousness of the implementation of his intentions. And the next change that will help the voterchoose a worthy candidate for a particular position or get a deputy mandate may become the payment of taxes by the candidate to thebudget of the state or a specific community.

The article examines the legal culture as a necessary element in the management activities carried out by local governments in Ukraine. The author analyzes the initiatives, preconditions and approaches to the proper use of legal culture in the activities of local governments, their impact on the legal culture of society, as well as the degree and quality of services guaranteed by fundamental human rights and freedoms by the state. The author analyzes the concept of legal culture in relation to its practical application in the management of local self-government in terms of efficiency and use of opportunities for the development of territorial communities. It also emphasizes the new disposition of local self-government, when as a result of reforming the administrative-territorial structure of Ukraine, new territorial communities were formed, thus forming the basis of a new subregional level – new united districts; accordingly, the new territorial communities were given powers that were previously exercised by a network of local executive offices, and most importantly - their own financial and land resources. The author draws attention to the successful technical implementation of local government reform, and at the same time increasing the role of the value system in local self-government, in particular raising the level of legal culture and legal awareness in communities and in modern society as a whole. Thus, according to the author of the article, it is based on the results of the formation of local authorities that the local elite is formed, which should contribute in every way to raising the legal culture and legal awareness of the population. The author of the article substantially studies the modern theoretical origins of legal culture from its philosophical and legal characteristics to the legal culture of municipal management as a specific type of management culture in the legal culture of society, the value of legal culture in relation to society (or its parts) to management or management personnel. The author also draws attention to the processes that take place depending on the level of legal culture and notes the views of other researchers of legal culture on the construction of possible internal confrontations among local elites. In the conclusions, the author notes that the value of legal culture lies in certain modern methodological standards that should be introduced in such public authorities as local government, thus disseminating successful international practices, values and institutional experience. Keywords: legal culture, legal culture of society, local governments, territorial communities, management activities