Kuzina I. Trust in Political Institutions in Ukraine: Conceptualization of the Phenomenon and Factors of Formation.

Object: trust in political institutions. Goal: conceptualization of the phenomenon of trust in political institutions and identification of factors of its formation. Methods: analysis and synthesis, historical and system analysis, typology, generalization and comparison, modelling, mass social survey, statistical methods, including index method, correlation analysis, regression and analysis of variance. Theoretical and practical results: the conceptual bases of sociological analysis of trust in political institutions is improved, including the use of neo-institutional approach; the typology of factors of trust in political institutions is developed and the factors topical in Ukraine are identified; the specific of dynamics of level of trust in political institutions in Ukraine is described. Novelty: conceptualization of the phenomenon of trust in political institutions and identification of factors of its formation in Ukraine. Level of Implementation: the results of the study are used in training courses "Political Sociology", "Technology of Electoral Sociological Study", "Methods of Collection of Sociological Information", "New Methods of Collection and Analysis of Sociological Information".