Slipets P. Political Values: Theory and Methodology of Knowledge and Realization.

This dissertation is devoted to the study of theories, methodologies of knowledge and practices of realization of political values, including those of the present-day Ukraine. Politological analysis is systematically connected with a social and philosophic one under the research of general-theoretical and applied problems of political values formation and functioning.Analysis of the genesis of values, political in particular, as their most important form, is performed through the determination of their content and functions on every historical stage, in specific political ideologies, doctrines, programs, with the purpose of strengthening the influence of political science on the political practice in terms of strategy of effective state politics formation.This thesis presents a systematic concept of political values knowledge as a theoretical product which is applied in the process of transformation of political reality and in resolution of value disputes, in Ukraine in particular, based on the principles of justice, democracy, freedom, order, tolerance, social and legal state. It was also taken into account a possibility to show the risks of formation and functioning of the states, not only at the post-soviet area, that worship anti-values or negative values - racism, totalitarianism, isolationism, terrorism etc.