Titar I. Study of Democracy Consolidation as a Socio-political Process: Conceptual Principles.

Object: consolidation of democracy; Goal: development of conceptual bases of sociological explanation of consolidation of democracy; Research methods: historical, system, comparative methods; Theoretical and practical results: conceptual bases of research of consolidation of democracy as a socio-political processare exposed, the features of consolidation of democracy in modern societies of Central-Eastern Europe and Ukraine are theoretically grounded; Novelty: description of the history of researches of democratic regimes consolidation, elaboration of static and dynamic theoretical models of democracy consolidation, systematization of the theoretico-methodological approaches to empirical authentication and measuring of consolidation of democracy; Degree of application: statements and conclusions of research can be used in activity of state authorities (and other subjects of political process), scientific researches, in higher educational establishments for maintenance of educational programs and textbooks in political sociology, theory of democracy etc.