Abstract

The Ukrainian political science has been challenged to carry out a comprehensive analysis and an adequate assessment of all transition processes in Ukraine. This challenge is caused by the fact that Ukraine is committed not only to improve its own political system to meet the European standards, but also to re-estimate its previous political, social and economic development. To stabilize situation is an actual policy task for the majority of political systems in transition. Solving problems of political system stabilization requires defining factors, which promote stability or, vice verse, impede to achieve it. In particular, considering transformation and modernization process in Ukraine, Ukrainian researchers stress that if political reforms are not accompanied by synchronous changes in economy, science, education, and mental sphere, a newly created social organism can be formed disproportionally. Different aspects of societies in transition are studied by Ukrainian scholars in many works. In particular, a significant impact of economic factors on the development of political institutions and processes is emphasized. A great attention is paid to political ideology studying, which is a special instrument of influence in transitional societies. A correlation between ideology and electoral technologies is demonstrated in the example of Ukraine. The need for creation of all-nation consolidating ideology under unfavorable conditions, it means a low level of public trust in political parties, which are ideology carriers, is defined as the main political contradiction in transitional society. Reviewing Ukrainian scholars’ studies on social and political transition demonstrates a significant contribution to the issue. It should be noted that the political practice in the post-communist and post-Soviet area is examined in the vast majority of works. However, they extremely lack a comprehensive study on theoretical problems of political transitology. The lack of a theory to be carried out precisely by Ukrainian researchers is imposed on their allegations that the use of a ‘common’ transitology theory namely for the post-Soviet is discrepant.