THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS OF THE STUDY OF THE PHENOMENON OF ELECTORAL CULTURE

Abstract

The article explores theoretical foundations of the study of the phenomenon of electoral culture. Different interpretations of the concept are presented; the components that make up the structure of electoral culture are provided. The article describes features and the most common approaches to classify electoral culture, presents relationships between the concepts of «political culture» and «electoral culture». It is shown that the study of various aspects of electoral culture can be considered as a perspective direction of sociological research, which allows predicting the behavior of the subjects of the electoral process with a high degree of probability.