Yuriev A. Political Structuring of the Ukrainian Parliament after the 2019 Elections

The presented dissertation is dedicated to defining the essence and factors of the political structuring of the Ukrainian parliament after the 2019 elections, researching the institutionalization of parliamentarism and communicative factors of the political structuring of the Ukrainian parliament after the 2019 elections, and the main trends of further development. The purpose of the study is based on a comprehensive political science analysis to investigate the political structuring of the Ukrainian parliament after the 2019 elections. The scientific novelty lies in solving one of the urgent problems of political science related to the definition of the political structuring of the Ukrainian parliament after the 2019 elections, which has not yet been sufficiently developed in theoretical research. For the first time in domestic political science, a comprehensive theoretical analysis of the political structuring of the Ukrainian parliament after 2019 has been carried out; the author's vision of the communicative dimension of the political structuring of the parliament is presented; the role of external factors in the political structuring of the parliament in Ukraine is determined. The understanding of the parliament as a topos of public interaction is improved; the essence of the political structuring of the parliament is determined based on theoretical approaches of political science; understanding the role of parliamentarism in the process of political structuring of society; determination of internal political factors of the institutionalization of parliamentarism in Ukraine. The interpretation of the 2019 presidential and parliamentary election campaigns as factors of the political structuring of the parliament has been further developed; the role of the institution of the President of Ukraine in the political structuring of the parliament after 2019 has been determined; the understanding of the topological approach and the possibilities of its application to the study of the process of political structuring of the Ukrainian parliament has been further developed. First of all, the topological approach allows us to focus on the continuity of the political process. Changing positions over a certain period of time, political actors do not destroy, but structure and restructure the political space. This is about political development, the cyclical nature of the political process, and the temporality of political decisions. It is obvious that the institutional space of political interaction after the 2019 election cycle has undergone significant transformations. The fundamental problem underlying political structuring is power. Political structuring is characteristic not only of society as a whole (national political space), but also of its individual segments (“fields”). The parliament is defined as a separate topos of institutional and factional interaction. The practical significance of the obtained results is determined by their relevance, novelty, and conclusions – both general theoretical and practical. The practical significance lies in the fact that the obtained research results can be used by representatives of public authority institutions and mass media, political actors, political parties, and civil society representatives in the process of political structuring. Furthermore, the results of the dissertation research can be applied in public policy regarding the improvement of the process of political structuring of the Ukrainian parliament and councils at other levels; the democratization of the parliament’s political structuring through the implementation of a proportional electoral system; the overcoming of negative phenomena; the substantial limitation of oligarchization and informal factors; and the consideration of transformations of the communicative space in the process of the political structuring of Ukrainian society and parliament. The results of the dissertation research create prerequisites for implementing the obtained findings into practical activity in Ukraine regarding increasing the efficiency of the Ukrainian parliament’s political structuring under the conditions of democratization and European integration.