KEY THEORETICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL BASES OF RESEARCH ON INSTITUTIONAL SUPPORT OF NATIONAL YOUTH POLICY

Abstract

The article identifies the key theoretical and methodological bases of research on the institutional support of national youth policy. Based on the conditional distinction between the theoretical interpretation of the categories “institute” and “institution”, the author defined their relationship as a whole and a part. It was found that in the course of societal evolutionary development, the institutions of public management of youth policy need to be changed or there is a need to create new institutions. On the other hand, institutes and, in fact, institutions, are quite inert in their construction, they do not show flexibility in response to changes and new challenges, and therefore lag behind trends and do not meet the urgent needs of society.
It is proved that the theoretical metamorphosis of the theory of institutionalism to shift the emphasis from the institute to the individual has become key in shaping the proactive role of youth in society in the transformation of the economic system, constant reform of public administration, approval of geopolitical vector of Ukraine, etc. The author provides definition of the category “institutional support of youth policy” as a social phenomenon that combines static and dynamic components and provides for the simultaneous existence, existence and functioning of certain institutions of youth policy in certain conditions and their change, transformation or creation of new ones in response to evolutionary challenges for societies and geopolitical trends. Institutes, institutions and the process of institutionalization are components of the institutional support of youth policy. The author argued that public youth policy, as an object of public administration, should be formed and implemented as a set of managerial influences. This complex includes the involvement in the process of forming the state youth policy the two generalized groups of youth policy actors: society and institutions of public management. A key factor in the efficacy of public management and ensuring the complexity of managerial influences on the formation and implementation of youth policy is the system of tools and mechanisms of interaction between these groups of youth policy actors at different levels and scales.