Kunytskyi M. Determinants and Manifestations of Political Behavior in Conditions of Democratic Transformation of Society

Thesis proposes to comprehend new aspects of understanding of political behavior as a component and indicator of development of democratic political culture. Political behavior is investigated in the conditions of democratic changes of society, in particular, features of interdependence of determinants and external manifestations of political behavior of the subjects of power and certain groups of Ukrainian society. The outlined determinants that determine the peculiarities of political behavior in a democratic transformation. In modern conditions of democratization of Ukrainian society, political behavior is considered through the prism of its motivation, in particular the balance between actual and potential motivation, between democracy as a motive-purpose and a motive-value. The concept of "motivational climate" which determines the content, form and effectiveness of political behavior, is updated and can promote both conscious political participation of citizens and form of indifferent attitude towards politics. In the dissertation are also considered separate factors (features of social and political stratification, achievements of the information society, corruption), which can both increase the political participation and activities of subjects in a democratic transformation, and provoke absenteeism, the state of apathy, indifference to politics. These factors also highlight the modern understanding of the laws and types of political behavior. Democratic changes are seen in the need for the consolidation of society, the revival and development of common values. The ways of formation of solidarity political behavior are proposed, which reduces the gap between potential and actual motivation and balances the mentioned motives in the dissertation.