PATRIOTISM AS A FACTOR IN POLITICAL AGENDA SETTING: INSTITUTIONAL AND IDEOLOGICAL GROUNDS

Abstract

The article attempts to outline the issue of patriotism as a factor in the transformation of the institutional structure of politics. The special status of patriotism as an interdisciplinary scientific problem as a result of the events of the Revolution of Dignity and the armed struggle in eastern Ukraine is analyzed. The analysis Identification and differentiation of problems of the macropolitical agenda on the principles of patriotism is carried out. It is emphasized that the consideration of patriotism in the political sphere is determined by attempts to explain such phenomena as the global «ethnic renaissance», the sudden mobilization of citizens during mass protests, the spread of manipulation within political communications. A retrospective analysis showed that patriotism should be considered not only as an ideological and doctrinal system or system of political argumentation, but also as a phenomenon that realizes the change of trajectory and mode of functioning of specific political institutions and the system as a whole. It is substantiated that modern Ukraine is in the process of transformation, namely a change in the activities of political institutions, which is fixed in the legal dimension. It is proved that the patriotic perspective of public representation in foreign countries at the present stage, on the one hand, does not deny civil rights and freedoms, on the other hand, gives human rights activities a clear character of protection of Ukrainian interests. Understanding the protection of Ukraine’s independence has influenced the formation of political forces, the differentiation of the political community on the basis of the attitude to the future of Ukraine as a separate state. The effectiveness of democratic transformations in Ukraine is measured by international rating agencies, which show changes in the development of democratic political relations, their institutional support, in particular in the rule-making, which determines the parameters of political participation. One of the main tasks of forming the core of the patriotic electorate is to ensure the transmission of political values from one generation to another. In Ukrainian society, patriotism as a factor of electoral choice has its own characteristics associated with the requirements of protecting the specific pragmatic interests of social groups and individuals.