Kovalenko Anatolii Andriyovych

Leading Researcher of the Sector of Legal Problems of Political Science, Doctor of Political Sciences, Professor

born May 26, 1955, village of Stara Huta, Seredino-Bud district, Sumy region

KOVALENKO Anatolii Andriyovych  – Doctor of Political Sciences (2003), Professor (2004), Academician of the Ukrainian Academy of Political Sciences. 

He graduated from the Kyiv Institute of Civil Engineering with a degree in «Civil Engineer» (1977, diploma with honors).

In 1997, he defended his dissertation for the degree of Candidate of Law «Constitutional and Legal Regulation of Local Self-Government in Ukraine: Issues of Theory and Practice» (specialty 12.00.02 — constitutional law). In 2003, he defended his dissertation for the degree of Doctor of Political Sciences «Establishment and Development of the Executive Power in Ukraine» (specialty 23.00.02 — political institutions and processes).

Main areas of scientific research — state building, development of local self-government, legal foundations of state power in Ukraine.

Published over 100 scientific works, including:

individual monograph «Development of the Executive Power in Ukraine at the Present Stage: Theory and Practice» (2002);

textbook, monographs, scientific notes and analytical reports co-authored by:

• «Theory and Practice of Local Self-Government in Ukraine» (1997),
• «Social Transformation and Public Administration in Ukraine: Political and Legal Determinants» (2003),
• «State Symbolism of Ukraine» (2005), «Democracy and Regional Elite: Political and Legal Problems of Power in the Capital of Ukraine — City of Kyiv» (2005),
• «Politics, Law and Power in the Context of Transformational Processes in Ukraine» (2006), 
• «State and Civil Society in Ukraine: Problems of Interaction» (2007), 
• «Administrative and Territorial Reform in Ukraine» (2009),
• «Legal Principles of Optimization of the Administrative-Territorial System of Ukraine» (2011–2012),
• «Reforming the Administrative-Territorial System: Ukrainian and Foreign Experience» (2011),
• «Legal Principles of State Ethno-National Policy in Ukraine» (2011),
• «Public Control of the Activities of Public Authorities: Political and Legal Analysis» (2013),
• «Prevention of Discrimination in Ukraine in the Context of European Integration» (2015),
• «Ethnopolitical Security of Ukraine: Political and Legal Mechanisms for Counteracting Ethnopolitical Disintegration of the State» (2015),
• «Political and Legal Principles of Transformation of the Party System of Ukraine» (2016),
• «Legal Dimension of State Information Policy of Ukraine in the Context of Global Challenges» (2018),
• «Legal Political Science: Problems of Conceptualization and Institutionalization» (2019),
• «Legal Political Science. Academic Course» (2021), «Politics, Law and Power in the Light of Legal Political Science» (2022),
• «Strategy of Political and Legal Development of Ukraine until 2030» (2022).

Awards and distinctions: 4 state orders — Order of Merit» (I, II, III degrees), Order of Danylo Halytsky and a number of other awards.