Rudik O. The "third wave" of democratization process and its peculiarities in post-communist countries.

The object is the "third wave" of global democratization process; the aim to complete analysis of the basic contents and structure of the "third wave" of global democratization, definition of the features of its development in post-communist countries; the methods are structural-functional analysis, classification, comparative, polytological analysis, mixed scanning; the new approach lies in researching of democratization as complex transformation process of nondemocratic regime into consolidated, stable democracy; the transition stage occurs under specific conditions of the concrete country, but on the basis of universal laws, ways and models of movement to a new democratic political regime; further developed the concept of democracy consolidation; unlike right authoritative regimes, post-communist transitions require simultaneous or as much as possible synchronized realization of radical social, economic and political reforms; in the process of democratic transit Ukraine is on a phase of institutionalization of political institutes of democracy; successful democratization in Ukraine is possible only under condition of development a model of modern liberal democracy; the main results include consultations during realization "Democratic Education", "Education for democracy in Ukraine" projects; the field is Political Science.