ASSOCIATION OF CITIZENS IN UKRAINIAN STATE BUILDING PROCESS
Abstract. Public associations and movements play an increasingly important role in social and political life. Unlike political parties, they do not claim to be directly involved in the exercise of power and do not fight for power. They are included in political activities to the extent necessary to meet the challenges in the economic, social, cultural, environmental and other fields. The presence of many problems that cannot be solved without power, encourages citizens to unite, includes them in the orbit of political processes.The aim of the work is to study the degree of influence of various public associations on political processes. One of the main tasks of public organizations and movements is to influence the processes of political decision-making by public authorities and pressure on government structures at different levels. It is indicated that they operate in a specific social and legal atmosphere, which significantly affects their activities. In the process of research, such methods as induction, deduction, analysis, synthesis, scientific abstraction and comparison were used. The completeness of the spectrum of public associations and the conditions of their functioning, which are the defining indicators of democratic society, are determined. Democratic society not only declares, but also really guarantees the rights and fundamental freedoms of citizens. Public associations together with state and party structures are important elements of the social and political structure of society. In democratic countries, they assume a wide range of social functions, becoming an integral structural component of society. The analysis of the role of public associations in political processes makes it necessary to form new approaches to the study of their activities. ; POŁĄCZENIE OBYWATELI W UKRAIŃSKIM PROCESIE PAŃSTWOTÓRCZYM Myroslava Filipovich doktor nauk historycznych, docent, Wschodnioeuropejski Uniwersytet Narodowy imienia Łesi Ukrainki, (Łuck, Ukraina) filmira@ukr.net Yaroslava Yarosh doktor nauk ...