КОНЦЕПТУАЛЬНІ ОСНОВИ ЕЛЕКТОРАЛЬНОЇ КУЛЬТУРИ

The article is devoted to the consideration of the concept and conceptual basis of electoral culture. Analyzing various scientific models of this category, the author presents his version of the concept of electoral culture. At the same time, the main attention is paid to the study of the realities of transitive societies. The main purpose of this article is to carry out demarcation and determine the subordination between the categories «political» and «electoral» culture. The study of the electoral culture of transitional societies is evident in the following circumstances. The phenomenon of a transitive society has long been at the center of the attention of researchers. To date, dozens or even hundreds of different scientific theories have been developed that are trying to describe and explain the complex phenomenon mentioned. The people as the only source of power, voting for representatives of certain political forces, determine the personal composition of the political elite and prefer a certain program of development of society. The election is the only possible and only recognized procedure in the civilized world for legitimizing state power and is a universal criterion for determining progress in the development of one or another political system. It is concluded that in electoral circles in electoral circles, electoral culture is an indispensable indicator that allows us to understand the state of development of their political culture in a certain historical period. The restriction of the conceptual field of political culture by the sphere of electoral culture makes it possible to isolate the stratum of «living» participation in the policy of citizens who only master various forms of democratic participation in the political process of transitional regimes.