Zorych O. Heuristic potential of the game concept in a political science analysis.

The dissertation provides a comprehensive research of heuristic potential of the game concept in a political science analysis. The paper defines the basic theoretical approaches for understanding the game nature of social and political practices. This work systematizes the basic structural, sense, and purpose descriptions of politics and game. The study exposes the content and the specific of humanitarian versions of game concept interpretation in different historical periods. This work provides the analysis of the main postulates of mathematical game theory, focuses on peculiar aspects of game concept in a formal analysis, and proves their insufficiency for the practical aims of modern political science analysis. The dissertation represents the integral conception of general theoretic model of game, determines on its basis the certainly factors of development of democracy as a form of political structure in Ukraine.