EXECUTIVE ACTION: ITS HISTORY, ITS DILEMMAS, AND ITS POTENTIAL REMEDIES

Objective: to analyze the history of formation and development of the executive actions, to elaborate unified requirements for their content.Methods: the dialectic approach to the cognition of social phenomena, which allows to analyze them in their historical development and function-ing, in the context of the unity of objective and subjective factors, determined the choice of research methods: formal-logical and comparative-legal.Results: the paper summarizes the existing scientific provisions concerning the absence of unified requirements for executive actions. The author analyzes the history of formation of the executive actions, their essential features, supervisory institutions and procedural mechanisms, which would promote the introduction of the legal standards in to the sphere of state administration.Scientific novelty: for the first time the article summarizes and analyzes the various scientific approaches to the requirements for executive actions; the necessity is proved to publish the internal rules of executive authorities as a public document.Practical significance: the conclusions of the article can be used in scientific, educational and law enforcement activity when considering the issues of executive actions.