E-NETWORK INSTITUTIONS AND THEIR ROLE IN STATE FUNCTIONING
Introduction. Information and network economics has both imposed new duties on the state and has given new opportunities, realization of which is carried out by means of establishment of new e-network institutions. Today they take their own place amidst traditional institutions of society, state, economics and they exercise a marked effect on the system of state administration. The goal of the paper is to study new e-network institutions, developing in conditions of information economy and able to significantly change the system of state administration. The task of the paper is to explain the concept of e-institutionalism and to define its place in today`s institutional economic theory, to define existing e-network institutions as well as their functions, structure and role in state activity. Results interpretation and their analysis. Institutional structure and institutional dynamics are the determinative factors of today`s economic development, the cause of which is intensive development of institutionalism and its position (foreground) today. In conditions of information-network society, its innovative area - e-institutionalism - is established. The subject of e-institutionalism are e-institutions or e-network institutions, developing with the help of IT technologies and functioning within virtual space and existing within it only. E-government is considered to be a new state institution. The task of e-government is to improve efficiency of state activity based on the use of information and communication technology. Establishment and development of this institution contributes to formation of new type of state power, closely interacting with the society by means of Internet and timely addressing its need. E-democracy is a new institution of information-network society, intending participation of all the citizens in decision-making in the problems, affecting all the society with the use of e-systems. Establishment of this institution will contribute to strengthening of democratic processes and overcoming of restrictions of representative democracy within which elaboration of common decision by the citizens is impossible. Growth of the role of social network and development of information and communications technologies led to establishment of the institution of political crowdsourcing, allowing to attract efforts of open network society to solution of one or another problem. Development of this institution unites the citizens into one expert political society and creates innovative projects with the aim to distribute effective managerial programs as well as to modernize separate living environment of a person. Use of Internet for self-organization also contributes to establishment of political flashmob - a new e-network institution, representing a new form of political participation and activity of citizens, allowing them to maintain their positions and to solve certain problems. Development of this institution will attract civil society to social and political problems and contribute to their solution. Conclusions. In conditions of information-network society, e-network institutions uniting agents and structuring their interactions by means of use of information and communication technology arise and gain more acceptance. These new institutions are inextricably intertwined with the agents, they create new “rules of game” and new results of behavior of economic agents, fundamentally changing the mechanism of state management.