Conceptual approaches to researching mutual influence mechanisms of govenrnment and parliament opposition
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The article substantiates conceptual approaches to researching the mechanisms of mutual influence of the government and the parliamentary opposition to ensure the stabilization of the political regime and increase the efficiency of public administration. The application of the structural-functional approach allowed to reveal the essence and explain the non-identity of the concepts of “interaction” and “mutual influence” as different communicative processes. Based on the above approach, it was determined that the parliamentary opposition and the government apply institutional, informational-psychological, economic, and communicative mechanisms of mutual influence to each other; and their components – tools and methods – were also characterized. A systemic approach was used to clarify the conditions for the application of mutual influence mechanisms of the government and the parliamentary opposition in non-democratic and democratic political systems, as well as the interdependence of their methods of influence.
It has been found that under conditions of an undemocratic political regime, the parliamentary opposition is forced to apply radical methods of the institutional mechanism of influence, while the tools of the economic mechanism of influence have an indirect impact on the government. Such actions are counterproductive in response to the government’s illegal and forceful tools and methods of influence on the parliamentary opposition. Under such conditions, the informational, psychological and communicative mechanisms of mutual influence of the above-mentioned institutions of the political system are confrontational, which makes mutual influence unconstructive.
It is substantiated that under a democratic political regime, the institutional and economic mechanisms of government influence on the parliamentary opposition contribute to the latter’s using a wide range of tools and methods of direct influence on the government. Their interaction is cooperative, demonstrating a subject-subject nature. Under such conditions, the informational, psychological, and communicative mechanisms of mutual influence between the government and the parliamentary opposition are constructive in nature. A comparative analysis of the mechanisms of mutual influence of the government and the parliamentary opposition in European countries has shown that under democratic regimes, the mutual influence of these institutions of the political system is constructive, contributing to the stabilization of the political regime, the stability of democracy, and the increase in the efficiency of public administration.
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