Open AccessPhilosophical and Historical Perspective of the Development of Electoral Technologies
Author(s) -
Anastasiia NEKRIACH,
Larysa Kochubei,
Tetiana Panfilova,
Vasyl Marchuk,
N. A. Herbut
Publication year - 2021
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2738-2753
DOI - 10.24234/wisdom.v20i4.572
Subject(s) - perspective (graphical) , politics , subject (documents) , monopoly , order (exchange) , political science , process (computing) , emerging technologies , sociology , epistemology , economics , computer science , law , philosophy , market economy , finance , artificial intelligence , library science , operating system
The main purpose of the article is to characterise the philosophical and historical perspective of the de- velopment of electoral technologies. The methodological basis of the research is conditioned by the pecu- liarities of the research subject, its interdisciplinary nature and expediency of a combination of sociologi- cal, historical-philosophical, political science and other approaches. Philosophical and historical analysis showed that electoral technologies should be understood as a kind of political communication used to ma- nipulate public opinion. In turn, this makes it possible for politicians to have a monopoly on the manage- ment of the electorate in order to obtain its support in the elections. Considering electoral technologies, we must consider their connection and combination with the totality of electoral technologies. That is, it should be noted that the actual electoral process involves the passage of two mega stages: 1) the preparato- ry (pre-election) stage, at which pre-election technologies are applied, and 2) the official election cam- paign itself (purely electoral stage), in the process of which the actual electoral technologies are used.