Сохраняют ли значение классовые основания политического участия?

Abstract

Researchers of postcommunist societies face with a lot of questions related to political involvement which can’t be explained within the classical transition theories or democratic theories of political participation. By what way can be explained a phenomenon of declining of political participation under development of democracy, or the phenomena of latent protest potential, of the returning to the left voting as well as a phenomena of burst of conventional political participation during and post-“Orange revolution” period in Ukraine? The author argues and examines a prospect of class analysis methodology applied to investigation of social based differences in political involvement. The using of vary research methodology within the class analysis and based on the ESS 2004/2005 database allows to make some important conclusion concerning to links between class-liked social groups and milieus and political involvement. In particular, there were argued the evidences of manifestation of political involvement by social classes forming within the market competitive environment and possessing the strong resources of competence and creditableness. In comparison with such groups, other ones which do not have these kinds of resources at the same time manifest both strong dependence on urban factors and absence of significant political involvement.