Academic Scientific JournalsPeculiarities of Ukraine’s population’s political identity through the prism of results of electoral preferences
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https://doi.org/10.26881/jpgs.2022.S1.05Keywords:
Ukraine, political identity, electoral activity, election process, territorial identity, territorial integrityAbstract
Key features of the Ukrainian society as an individual political nation have been characterized. The research is based on the election process at the level of the election to the Verkhovna Rada. In the research, data from parliamentary election campaigns held in Ukraine during the 21st century were used. Key markers for estimation of the population’s identity, the problem of language priority, the problem of historic memory, the issue of Ukraine’s unitary formation and its spatial and territorial integrity were determined. The arguments offered and the objective grounds of state integrity worded in the research prove separate, formed and integral nature of the Ukrainian political nation.
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