Voznyuk P. Consensus as principle of contemporary democracy

The work examines forming idea of consensus and its practical implementation in the democratic countries of the world. There was identified cognation of philosophic and political science concepts of society and political agreement with contemporary political and legal principle of consensus. There were analyzed forms and peculiarities of applying the principle of consensus in the countries with different governing systems as well as in the sphere of international relations. Consensus and anti-consensus tendencies in Ukrainian politics were also considered. Reasoning from world experience, obstacles to implementation of consensus mechanisms in Ukraine were revealed. On the grounds of this, there were suggested some aspects of further reforming political system.