TY - JOUR TI - Problems of territorial communities’ formation in ukraine AU - Kuczabski, Aleksander AU - Zastavetska, Lesia AU - Zastavetskyy, Taras TI - Problems of territorial communities’ formation in ukraine AB - Issues of the administrative division in the broader context of political and administrative reforms connected with democratization and decentralization are considered. Some historical aspects of the administrative division modeling in Ukrainian borderlands are analyzed. Goals, mechanisms and the course of the current reform of administrative division at the local level in the Volyn and Lviv provinces are presented. The specifics of wealthy communities – new administrative units at the local level are outlined. Features of budget decentralization based on the example of comparing the structure of local government revenue are characterized. The problems and threats faced by the organizers at the present stage of reform are revealed, and some solutions to problematic situations in implementation of the new administrative division are proposed. VL - Volume 7 (2017) IS - Issue 2 (2017) PY - 2017 SN - 2084-0497 C1 - 2451-2249 SP - 87 EP - 97 DO - 10.4467/24512249JG.17.019.6635 UR - https://ejournals.eu/czasopismo/journal-of-geography-politics-and-society/artykul/problems-of-territorial-communities-formation-in-ukraine KW - administrative division KW - administrative reform KW - Ukrainian borderlands.