Violation of ethics of professional communication and legal liability of people's deputies

Abstract

The study is devoted to interdisciplinary analysis and characterization of ethical behavior of people's deputies, features of its violation and legal liability for such violations. The interdisciplinarity of this study is firstly connected with the study which identified the basic norms and principles of professional communication and parliamentary ethics in terms of philological science, and then analyzed the main areas of legal liability of deputies for violations related to the legal basis of the study. Attention is focused on the features of professional communication, which correlates with various forms of conversation, listening, writing and responding, which are carried out both at work and outside it, in person or in electronic form. Professional communication, as part of the study of political discourse, is related to such concepts as professional competence and the culture of professional communication, which is primarily related to the culture of perception, culture of reflection, culture of communication and culture of interaction. According to the Law of Ukraine on the Status of the People’s Deputy, the status, rights, and responsibilities of the people’s deputies, which are connected with conducting political activity, are determined. Deputy ethics is considered as a subdivision of professional ethics which task is to regulate both parliamentary and extra-parliamentary relations. The Ukrainian model of regulation of such activities envisages the existence of a regulatory body (the Committee of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine on the Rules of Procedure, Deputy Ethics and Organization of Work of the Verkhovna Rada, which is accountable to the Parliament of Ukraine). Professional parliamentary activity imposes special obligations on the representatives of the deputy corps to ensure the moral nature of the relationship that develops in connection with its implementation. It is clear that the deputy, carrying out his parliamentary activities, is obliged to adhere to the norms of professional ethics and conduct, violations of which lead to legal liability.