Розділи монографій | Chapters of monographs

Representative government is being seriously tested in the context of globalization, ranging from a decrease in the level of trust on the part of citizens in political institutions and leaders in developed democracies, to outright imitation of the tools of representative democracy. Accordingly, the purpose of the study is to analyze the problems and prospects for the development of representative government in the context of modern globalization challenges, as well as to identify areas for its improvement. The research methodology is based on a set of general scientific and special methods (analysis and synthesis, induction and deduction, structural-functional, institutional and comparative analysis, observation, systemic approach and modeling). The results of the study show that to date, the key principles of representative government are generally left unchanged (governors are appointed through regular elections; the decision-making process of power retains a certain independence from the wishes of the electorate; those who are governed can express their opinions and political preferences independently of the governors, public decisions are obligatory tested by debates), but they are undergoing a certain transformation under the pressure of such factors as the crisis of the legitimacy of representative democracy, the global dominance of populism, as well as a drop in the overall effectiveness of representative bodies of power and public policy. Value/ originality. At the same time, since representative government is a rather flexible system, adaptive and resistant to external influences, it is able to withstand these negative trends, primarily through the implementation of new forms of non-institutionalized political participation of citizens in the activities of representative authorities; transformation of the role of interest groups in socio-political processes; deepening the professionalization of representative government, as well as the creation of institutions of deliberative democracy using the lottery procedure.