Klyuchkovych A. The Evolution of the Model of the Social and Political Development in the Slovak Republic.

The complex political science analysis of the evolution of the Slovak model of the social and political development has been performed in the dissertation. The main factors, goals and dynamics of social and political changes at the key stages of Slovakia's development during the last three decades have been studied. In accordance with the elaborated conceptual scheme of analysis, the specifics of the processes of democratization of the political regime, its hybridization, consolidation of democracy and realization of its potential in modern conditions have been gradually revealed. The changes at the level of the party system, the state institutions, the public sector, the political culture of the Slovak society and their impact on the evolution of the development model have been analyzed through the structural and dynamic prism. The specifics of the democratic transformation of Slovakia in the context of the general transitory characteristics of post-communist countries have been revealed. The consolidation of the democratic regime in the Slovak Republic has been substantiated to be an integral result of multilevel social and political changes under the influence of a set of structural and procedural factors. The main problems and tendencies of social and political development of Slovakia at the present stage have been clarified.