Rumiantseva S. Media Technologies in the Electoral Process: World Trends and Ukrainian Practice

The object of the research is electoral process in electoral and consolidated democracy. The subject of the study is electoral media technologies in Ukrainian electoral process. The dissertation based on theoretical approaches of foreign and Ukrainian political scientists as well as on the wide range of empirical data. Ukrainian and European legislation the media technologies' were summarized. There are a historical, a systemic, an institutional and comparative methods, as well as a methods counting which were used in dissertation research. The definition of electoral media technologies is proposed by the author. Typologies of modern electoral media technologies in classical and transitional democracies are systematized on reduced and the firstly formulated foundations. Materials of the research work can be used for scientific and educational purposes. Conclusions of the dissertation can be used for further researches of the electoral media technologies' phenomena. They can promote to define the vector of reforming an electoral and media spheres of Ukraine.