IMPORTANCE OF CONTROL FOR DEMOCRACY PROVIDING

Abstract

Problem setting. The article defined the peculiarities of control in the term of democracy, it’s emphasized the importance of control institute for its effective functioning. It is alleged that the democracy mandates the existence of both and external control of public authorities.
The purpose of the article is to analyze the importance of the control to ensure the democracy in view of its historical development.
Article’s main body. It is noted that the control helps to maintain a proper balance between the power strong and its responsiveness, it promotes the adoption of transparent and responsible decisions, supportes the balance of state and public institutions to prevent excess and abuse of powers. In addition, the link between the concepts of democratic control and democratic legitimacy and between control and the rule of law has been demonstrated. Conclusions and prospects for the development. In the democratic society control can be represented as targeted and effective impact of social subjects on the behavior of the social interaction agents. The aim of such control to optimize the functioning of the social system in the context of the subject’s relations that enshrined at all levels of social system functioning, beggining from the legislative provisions and ending by the level of consciousness of the individual member of society.