PROBLEMS OF CONFLICT OF INTEREST MANAGEMENT IN THE CIVIL SERVICE SYSTEM

Natalia Likarchuk; Daria Likarchuk; Inna Shevel

doi:10.23856/4715

Natalia Likarchuk Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7119-439X
Daria Likarchuk Kyiv National University of Culture and Arts http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1603-7601
Inna Shevel Kyiv National University of Culture and Arts http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6387-2506

Keywords: conflict, interest management, democracy, political, legal mechanisms, consensus

Abstract

We offers a solution to problems of conflict of interest management in the civil service system. Conflicts of interest are largely provoked by the implementation of a radical domestic policy of reforms that affect the fundamental interests of most actors in political life. It is in these crisis conditions of “institutional instability” that the articulated interests of the main groups in the struggle to preserve or change their political status are especially evident. The conflict of interests of the ruling elite is resolved by the new strategic course development by the political leadership of the state, which finds its expression in the institutionalization of the political regime within the policy of “consensus”. Ukraine implements the European experience and uses international cooperation of developed democracies to study and prevent conflicts of interest, implement international standards, settle political and legal mechanisms to overcome the negative consequences of conflicts in the civil service.

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