Chebanyk V. The influence of political parties on the formation and development of regional politics (after the example of Zakarpattia and Chernivtsi regions).

A complex political analysis of the influence of the political parties' regional headquarters of Zakarpattia and Chernivtsi regions of Ukraine on the formation and implementation of regional politics in the course of 1999-2014 has been carried out in the thesis. The main methodological and conceptual approaches to the study of regional politics in Ukraine and the involvement of political parties in its formation have been systematized. A specific character of the political spectrum formation processes in Zakarpattia and Chernivtsi regions and the peculiarities of the political parties' regional headquarters involvement in the implementation of the mechanisms for regional politics formation have been revealed. The involvement of political parties' regional headquarters in the elective processes at the city, regional and all-Ukrainian levels has been analyzed. The evolution of interrelations between political parties' regional headquarters and non-governmental organizations in the dimension of their communicative strategies has been characterized.