Fel'dman P.Ya. The mechanisms of political coordination of interests: system analysis

Abstract: The article considers the phenomenon of political coordination of public interests through a prism of a system approach. According to the author, there are institutionalized and non-institutionalized mechanisms by means of which public interests are being coordinated. These mechanisms are divided by the author into two types: horizontal and vertical. The first type of mechanism provides convergence of interests of subjects sharing the same political status and having similar political resources (subjects being ordinary citizens, interest groups, parliamentary fractions, deputy groups, etc.). The mechanisms of the second type are realized by means of vertical communication of the actors, who take different positions in hierarchy of political system - governmental institutes and interest groups. The methodological basis of the research is a systemic, structural and functional, comparative political approaches, methods of analysis, synthesis, induction, deduction, observation. The author compares the coordination mechanisms of public interest with various forms of electoral and functional representation and comes to a conclusion that balance in public interest can be achieved using political mechanisms such as public lobbying, social partnership, as well as institutes of direct democracy and parliamentary procedures. The system of administrative and communicative mechanisms by means of which the state carries out the regulation of public interests is also described in the article. The author considers "the soft power" as a prospective mechanism of harmonization of interests of the government and society.

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