Maksymets B. National-democratic parties of Ukraine in the election campaigns at the beginning of the XXI century.

The thesis presents a versatile analysis of the participation of national-democratic parties of Ukraine in the election campaigns at the beginning of the XXI century. Degree of the scientific elaboration, source base, theoretical and methodological aspects of the study were characterized. Evolution, features of the ideological positioning, current state of centre-right parties were studied. Electoral activity of national-democratic parties in presidential 2004, 2009-2010, parliamentary 2002, 2006, 2007 and local elections 2002, 2006, 2010 was analyzed. Political analysis of their results in the national and regional sections was done. Reduction of the electoral effectiveness of centre-right parties was shown and the causes which determined it.