Kobulnuk V. Peculiarities of democratic transformation of political regimes in Ukraine and Poland

The thesis analyzed the approaches to the definition of political regime: institutional (legal), political and social system. A definition of "political regime" as a way of functioning government institutions, the relationship between political figures, which is expressed through the most common set of methods and means of exercising and exercising power, that form and issue structure of the real relation between the state and society has been proposed. It has been proved that transformation is a nonlinear social process and transformation of political regime should be interpreted as a certain, expressed in time sequence of actions aimed at changing specific features and overall shape of the existing political regime, which should be understood as "the transition with open end".