Electoral Memory of Ukrainians as a Socio-Political Phenomenon: Axiological and Ontological Analysis (original) (raw)

2021, The Bulletin of Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University. Series:Philosophy, philosophies of law, political science, sociology

Problem setting. Given that voters usually react more to the past than to the vague future that their candidates for power “paint” in their minds during the election campaign, the problem of analyzing the phenomenon of electoral memory of Ukrainians in today’s challenges is relevant. The manipulation of collective memory by political elites in the electoral space is reflected in a process called “memory politics”. Recent research and publications analysis. Based on the analysis of the concepts of collective memory of M. Halbwachs, A. Assmann, J. Olvik, M. Bloch, D. Zhukov, the commemoration of P. Nora, A. Megill, E. Romanovskaya, G. Gornova and the policy of memory. According to V. Achkasov, A. Miller, D. Gigauri, electoral memory is defined as the intentional orientation of the voters’ consciousness to the past, when the result is memory as a representation of a specific electoral behavior. Paper objective. The aim of the article is to study the influence of electoral memory on the...

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