The strategic guidelines for Ukraine`s development such as democratic society and its integration into progressive international community are emphasized in the dissertation. An integral part of these processes that determine the society`s development includes active society`s participation in the formation of representative bodies and political decision making. The specific features of realization the principle of dialectical unity of freedom and responsibility as a basis of a political choice in a modern democratic society are investigated.
The relationship and unity of freedom and responsibility is studied as one of the central philosophical, ethical, political and legal issue. Freedom and responsibility are a fundamental philosophical and political and legal pair of categories that are inextricably linked at all levels of social life. In the political and legal sphere this connection can be manifested in both decision-making system and electoral choice. The essential dualism of political choice is revealed. Civil and political responsibility is conditioned by the need to participate in the activities of the state, make political decisions and solve socially significant problems. Freedom is largely determined by the subject`s civil and political competence, his skills and abilities to protect his own and socially significant rights and freedoms.
The nature, essence and main determinants and conditions of the democratic political choice realization are also analyzed. Value, legal, economic and communicative determinants are studied. Their systematic dependence and relationship between political determinants are examined. The central role of political subjectivity is argued as a citizen`s ability to make consciously responsible choices in order to influence the socio-political processes. External factors of political choice such as socio-political environment, configurations of political forces, dominant political traditions, etc. are identified and analyzed as well as internal factors that include the level of political consciousness and culture of the individual, political preferences, motives, expectations, etc. The legal determination of political choice is analyzed in totalitarian and democratic societies.
Peculiarities of political choice in the conditions of transformational society on the example of Ukraine are also analyzed. A significant gap between the values of freedom and responsibility in Ukrainian society`s consciousness and the lack of awareness of their dialectical relationship in a democratic society are distinguished. In this dissertation the provisions on the peculiarities of the formation of political consciousness and culture in the conditions of the hybrid war against Ukraine by the Russian aggressor as well as aims and opportunities to minimize these negative effects have been further developed. The problems of forming a culture of political choice in Ukrainian society namely: paternalism, deformation of legal consciousness, «blurring» of the system of political and legal values, legal nihilism, deformation of the moral and ethical sphere, etc. are analyzed. Particular attention is paid to educational factors (such as education and enlightenment) of the formation of society`s political and legal culture.
The dissertation materials seem to be useful for further research on the ways and tools, problems and prospects of affirmation of democratic values and principles, the political and legal culture formation, counteraction of the aggressor on its manipulation of people`s consciousness and behavior, etc.
