The article presents a theoretical and legal analysis of the normative framework for the application of private law instruments in public administration (contractual, financial-property, corporate, and institutional-organizational). It is noted that one of the key factors facilitating the gradual transition to a modern understanding of public administration tools was the institutional transformation of Ukrainian legislation in the post-Soviet period. This transformation aimed at the progressive implementation of European standards of public governance, the establishment of the rule of law, and the expansion of legal means of state influence on social relations based not only on state coercion but also on the principles of dispositivity, equality, cooperation, and partnership. The author’s review of the normative framework in this area demonstrates that private law instruments of public administration have evolved into a complex, multi-component system that integrates contractual, financial-property, corporate, and institutional-organizational mechanisms into the general system of legislation on public authority and its forms of influence on social relations. Each of these groups, while having its own regulatory subjects and specifics of legal application, closely interacts with other elements of the system, allowing public administration entities to adapt their activities to the needs of society and the economy. It is emphasized that legislative acts establishing these mechanisms reflect a gradual transformation of approaches to public administration: from a model focused exclusively on state interests to a comprehensive use of dispositive means and partnership-based forms of interaction between the state and the private sector, with a growing focus on human-centered principles. Such developments in the normative framework laid the foundation for the formation of a modern vision of public administration tools within the Ukrainian legal system, which in turn has stimulated doctrinal exploration in this field.
O. M. Chernenkyi (Thu,) studied this question.