GUGNIN E. Topological Characteristics of an Electoral Field of Ukraine

In the dissertation a complex consideration of an electoral field as a systematically organized social phenomenon is carried out.The thesis represents a description of the authorial approach in sociological research of an electoral field from the point of view of its topological characteristics. The maintenance of political space and an electoral field in a context of various aspects of theoretical-methodological researches of the past and present is viewed. Specific conditions, the purpose and logic of functioning of an electoral field are described. On the basis of real empirical material of sociological researches the author generalizes a complex of the political-topological reasons