Political participation of citizens of Ukraine in the modernization process of modernity as reflection of the relations in the system power – society

Abstract

One of the major challenges facing the contemporary Ukrainian society is the institutional and motivation to ensure a high level of inclusion of citizens in the process of political modernization. The peculiarity of the Ukrainian society is that characteristic of Western societies practice of economic modernization is itself understood as favorable conditions for mass political participation, since possession of a large economic and cognitive resources for moving from survival values to self-expression values, compounded reinforced, sometimes decisive, values of the factor of political and ideological nature, which do not contribute to the consolidation of society around the strategic objectives of modernization. By citizens of Ukraine together models of political participation due to the specifics of the national political and institutional context, which combines both formal political institutions and informal caused by features of the political culture of the Ukrainian society. Features of the political system of Ukraine, its transformational nature of the basic principles of relations between the government and citizens contributed to the formation of three main models of political participation – electoral, protest, discursive. Modernization potential of political participation in the early twenty-first determined not so much by its electoral forms as possible the participation of citizens in the area of public policy, which is a reflection of the character and quality of the relationship between state and society.