Vonsovych S. Conceptual bases of political transitology.

In the thesis, the principles of political transitology as political science are substantiated. In the context of the analysis of retro and contemporary political processes the history of origin and genesis of political transitology as the field of political science in the context of post-communist and post-Soviet transitivity socio-political systems is allocated. The theoretical and methodological, conceptual framework and principles for the study and research of transitology are considered. In the theories of transitology researches are focused on the mechanisms of democratization, dynamics of the transition and consolidation. The genesis of transitological discourse in socio - political, chronopolitical and temporal - political vectors of transition are analyzed. Three significant areas in the research of political transition: elitist and institutional, the analysis of its intermediate and alternative forms are identified. It is proved that a characteristic feature of modern political transition is its uncertainty, which takes place in the procedures and the results of transit. In this aspect virtually all the final variants of transition are determined by the scenarios of exit from uncertainty and the character of regime that were set thereafter. Stages of passage, the factors contributing to or inhibiting its transit, depending on the starting point - the totalitarian or authoritarian regimes are established. Models of political transition, including - in the post, the post-Soviet political spaces, as well as a model of democratic transition current phase in Ukraine are identified and classified. The essential characteristics and configurations of democratic transition in post-communist and post-Soviet transit are defined. The ways of adjusting the strategy of political transition in Ukraine in three dimensions: institutional, cultural and civil -are proposed.