Political transformations’ actors: foreign experience and Ukrainian practice

Abstract

The article considers the image of a proactive political environment of transformations, which is widespread through the media and forms the basis of legitimacy of leaders and trust in it. The priorities of general modernization at the level of individual states are substantiated.The purpose of this article is to clarify the peculiarities of the activities of the subjects of political transformation against the background of foreign experience and Ukrainian practice.Research methods. The structural-functional method was used to analyze the diversification of power control and the loss of transformational "specialization" by some political entities; the method of comparison is used to establish the vector of modernization reforms of the political system and to formulate certain requirements and approaches to the identification of the subjects of transformation; the method of retrospective reconstruction for the analysis of modification of behavior of subjects of transformation, being guided by interests of realization of efficiency of management more, than program aspects of realization of modernizations of reforms.Results. An assessment is made of the level of success of modernization in a transformational democracy, which is possible only if all political actors are equally interested. It is proved that the context of modernization of the subjects of political transformations in the transforming countries needs conditions for full disclosure. Emphasis is placed on the new dimension of the functioning of the subjects of political transformations is their reflection and greater transparency and controllability of public authority in democratic and transition countries. The mechanisms of determining the directions of evolution of the subjects of political transformations within the framework of the functioning of the new media are revealed. The specifics of the ability of elites to influence the change of social and economic situation as one of the relevant evidences of their connection with the processes within the society and the information component of modernization are noted. The substantiation of the importance of awareness of the regulatory activities of elites and their impact on the situation means a certain prejudice against certain political forces, as one of the basic processes of institutionalization of modern political transformations.