Melnyk J. Political responsibility in the context of public and personal interests harmonization

The aim of the dissertation is to define political responsibility in the context of harmonization of public and personal interests. The object of study - political responsibility in the social dimension. The scientific novelty of the dissertation research is that the dissertation research presented in domestic political science is the first complex scientific study of the interdependence of political responsibility and harmonization of public and personal interests in modern countries. The methodological basis of the dissertation research is institutional and systemic approaches, historical, structural-functional, comparative, formal-logical methods. The study of the concept of "political responsibility", using different approaches, made it possible to distinguish between moral and political, political and legal, religious and political responsibility, to formulate their own definition of political responsibility. The analysis of the peculiarities of the application of political responsibility has led to the allocation of domestic and international, permanent and situational, primary and derivative, typical and atypical subjects of political responsibility, constitutional and unconstitutional instruments of political responsibility. The study of the composition of political responsibility revealed the additional nature of the application of moral, political and historical responsibility in combination with legal responsibility, the basis of religious and political responsibility, political responsibility of political parties and politicians, made it possible to clarify the range of political responsibility. A comparative analysis of the distribution of political responsibility for the period of Ukraine's independence was conducted, as a result of which two previously unexplored instruments of political responsibility were identified - a change in the form of government and lustration.