Abstract

In the given article the author has made an attempt to perform a comparative politological analysis of the democracy consolidation process peculiarities. The article throws light on theoretical and methodological principles of defining the very nature, factors and patterns of democracy consolidation in the Western science. The author has contemplated a great variety of politological aspects of consolidated democracy ranging from the general stability of political institutions to democratic norms strengthening on the level of the general public. The following research trends have been used in comparative political science in order to properly substantiate the concept of consolidated democracy: transitological, institutional, procedural, neoinstitutional and value­based. Among indicators or rather factors of the democracy consolidation process we should mention constitutional, psychological and administrative ones. The author provided the examples of democracy consolidation procedural rules in the process of democratic transition. Democracy consolidation encompasses two sociopolitical levels of its realization, thus being value­based (aimed at reaching consensus in democratic development) and institutional (political system pluralism and the civil society development).