The institutional component of mechanism of public administration in cultural sector

Abstract

The purpose of the article is to study the institutional component of the mechanism of state administration in cultural sector, which is embodied in a hierarchical organizational structures and public authorities. Research methodology consists in the disclosure of the essence of institutional component, which aims to provide the comprehensive development of cultural environment. The main research methods are structural-logical, formal-logical methods and methodology of systematic approach. The scientific novelty of the work consists in the fact that the author has proposed the definition of institutional support of state administration in cultural sector. The author has studied the structural component of the institutional structure of the mechanism of state administration in cultural sector, determined the basic state administration bodies and analyzed the status of secondary ones. Conclusions. The research has established that culture itself can be viewed in three dimensions: the way of human activity on transformation of nature, society and man; a set of works of human activity; socially significant information expressed in terms of values and standards. But for the purposes of state administration culture is understood as a set of material and spiritual values created by the society, which characterize a certain level of its development. It has been established that the Ministry of Culture of Ukraine takes the lead in the institutional support of state administration in cultural sector. The attention is focused on the specificity of status of such state institutions as Cinema State Agency of Ukraine, Ukrainian Institute of National Memory, State Committee on Television and Radio Broadcasting of Ukraine and Ukrainian Center of Cultural Studies.