CIVIL SECTOR IN THE SPORTS SYSTEM: REGULATORY AND INSTITUTIONAL ASPECT

Abstract

In the current conditions of sports development in Ukraine, there is a growing need to define the role of the civil sector as a separate institutional component. Despite the intensification of public initiatives, the issue of interaction between the public, private and civil society sectors remain insufficiently researched, which necessitates clarification of the terminology and concept of the civil sector in the field of sports.The purpose of the article is to conceptually define the concept of “civil sector in the system of sports” and analyze its role in the development of physical culture and sports in Ukraine. To obtain and interpret the results of the study, the author uses general and special methods of scientific analysis: synthesis, generalization, logical analysis, abstraction, comparison, system analysis, analysis of scientific literature, official government documents and other information Internet resources, as well as the logical and semantic method. The author analyzes the scientific achievements of foreign and Ukrainian researchers in the field of civil society theory, as well as the regulatory and legal support for the development of physical culture and sports in Ukraine. The author notes an extremely low level (in terms of the number of publications) of scientific study of the problem under investigation by Ukrainian scientists, which is largely due to the lack of clarity of the clear components of the concept of “civil society”, which is the central element of the conceptual construction of the civil society in the system of sport. Particular attention is paid to the analysis of regulatory and legal terminology, in particular, such legal categories as “public”, “public associations”, “civil society institutions”. The author examines the correlation between the concepts of “civil sector”, “third sector” and civil society. As a result, the article substantiates that the civil sector is essentially the same as the concept of civil society; in a narrower sense, it is its most active institutionalized segment – civil society institutions or civil society organizations (CSOs). It is shown that in most European countries CSOs play a key role in the development of sports with a relatively low level of direct regulatory intervention by the government in this process. Instead, the government sector is primarily engaged in creating favorable conditions for this through systematic and constant interaction with non-governmental and commercial organizations. It is concluded that the concept of “civil sector in the system of sport” can be defined as a set of citizens, civil society institutions, including non-governmental associations of physical culture and sports industry, sports federations, various non-profit associations and organizations which organize and/or participate in initiatives for the development of physical culture and sports (sports events, mass gatherings, charity events, sports festivals, support for sports infrastructure, co-financing of projects, etc.