Kuzhman O. Formation of regional political agenda as a factor in the democratization of the political process in modern Ukraine.

The object is the essential characteristics of the regional political agenda. The aim is to reveal the peculiarities of the regional agenda in conditions of democratic transformation of Ukrainian state. The methods are structural and systemic, political and historical, political and institutional. It is proved that regional political agenda-setting should be seen as a process of promotion of a socially important issue to the level of its official recognition by the regional authorities and further review and discussion. Demonstrated that regional political agenda covers median (median) position among the political agenda of the national level, which is dominated by "unobtrusive" problem, for which the people have no personal experience, and local (municipal) levels dominated "obsessive" problems for which people have direct and constant experience. Application sphere is training courses.