THE ROLE OF POLITICAL PARTIES IN PUBLIC MANAGEMENT AND ENSURING THE SECURITY OF THE ELECTION PROCESS

Abstract

It was emphasized that the party is one of the most important tools of political expression. Due to its strong organizational focus on participation in political life (the right to represent the interests of a part of society through victory in elections), the party becomes an effective expression of the needs and goals of certain social groups, brings its driving force to the sphere of governance and determines the direction in which state authorities will act . In the domestic political system, the transition from totalitarian one-party system to effective multi-party system took place due to "small-party system". If by the end of 1991, 26 political parties were registered in Ukraine, now there are more than 400 of them. At the same time, political tension in Ukrainian society, a high percentage of absenteeism for elections, frequent government crises, lack of coordinated activity of the majority and opposition in the parliament, radicalization of certain social population groups of Ukraine are not arguments for affirming the thesis about the effectiveness of the hypertrophied multi-party system of Ukraine. Modern political parties in Ukraine have never been able to perform the functions of an effective mediator in the relationship between the individual and the state, because they were formed earlier than the social groups of the population, whose interests these parties are meant to represent. The logic of the development of political pluralism in Ukraine developed within the framework of an atomized party system (a huge number of small parties) and was transformed into a system with separate elements of more polarized (the presence of a strong center-left and far-right political forces), rather than moderate (the presence of a strong center) pluralism. However, according to the authors, moderate pluralism is considered the most effective.