Регіональний розвиток і політична демократія: огляд методологічних моделей та можливості їх використання в Україні

Abstract

In the article author deals with one of the most discussion problems of the modern comparative political science which is the problem of the search for the correlation be-tween political democracy and the territorial development, first of all, between the design of the democratic institutes and the efficiency of the social and economical development. Author supposes that the methodological base of the investigation of the dependence between "political democracy" and "regional development efficiency" can be formed by the models elaborated by the Swedish author Jan Olsson and the representatives of the Tocqueville Center in Budapest, Hungary. This research programs can be used in Ukraine.