Теоретичні засади дослідження політичної конкуренції партій.

Abstract

The investigation examines the competition of parties. In the framework of these issues in more details is discussed the state of research and development problems in the works of foreign and domestic science. It is proved that competition between for support from the community is an important criterion of democratization of the process. The attention is focused on the fact that competition between is an important factor in the legitimization of power by raising the level of activity of citizens in electoral periods through engaging them in active activities. The key concept of political competition of parties is considered by the author in the context of theories of democracy based on fundamental developments of the theory of parties, which carried out foreign and domestic researchers of science. It is noted that the nature of competition of depends on the type of regime and level of culture of citizens. It is proved that competition has a different character in different types of regimes. In authoritarian and totalitarian regimes, the relevant preferences have pro-government parties. In democratic regimes act in equal conditions. It is noted that for the Ukrainian process characteristic is the neglect of and legal norms and the establishment and compliance with the “rules of the game” at which will happen the competition of parties. In turn, the Ukrainian elites consider the and legal norms not through the prism of certain qualitative characteristics and values, but using technical tools, which you can change depending on the specific situation and the rating of parties. Political competition of in large extent is carried out through informal channels, in which the formal legal rules often become the formal confirmation of the achieved before informal arrangements between the government and the opposition.