THE STATE OF THE CULTURE OF CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY OF ENTERPRISES OF UKRAINE AT THE MODERN STAGE AND THE PARTICIPATION OF POLITICAL PARTIES IN ITS DEVELOPMENT (ON RESULTS OF A NUMBER SURVEY). ARTICLE FIRST1

Abstract

Ukraine’s first steps in the transition to democracy turned out to be quite complex, which found its expression, among other things, in negative consequences for Ukrainian society, as indeed for all post-socialist states of the former USSR. This is due to the fact that, firstly, not one country in the world experienced a painless cardinal change in social relations, and secondly, among the many reasons that impede the flow of democratic transit in Ukraine, one can single out one of the system-forming contradictions between the declared political goal and a fairly low level of culture of democracy is characteristic of almost all countries that have gained state independence and started on the path of democratic development after World War II. It is conditioned, among other things, by the historical conditions of the development of our country. According to German researchers at the University of Regensburg, doctors Jerzy Mackow, chairman of the University’s Comparative Policy Council and Ingmar Bredies3, democratic changes in Ukraine, unlike Western European countries, began without their core - the bourgeoisie and civil society - that significantly complicated the movement towards the goal. Of course, this could not but hinder the spread of CSR practice in Ukraine and the formation of its culture as a value expression of the realization by the business of not only economic but also social and spiritual activity.