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The article provides a systematic analysis of threats to compliance with legal principles of elections in a globalized digital society.

The article is devoted to a comprehensive analysis of the manifestation of electoral rights and their modification through digital transformation processes through the analysis of the problems of legal regulation of such aspects as disinformation, manipulation, personal information about the voter. Considerable attention is paid to the role of artificial intelligence in the electoral process, its positive and destructive capabilities are identified.

The article examines the legal basis for the realization of women's political rights in Ukraine. An important condition and guarantee for the establishment of democracy in Ukraine is the equality of women and men in all spheres of life of society and the state. Among the various aspects of the modern perception of the state of women in society and the state, the aspect "woman and politics" occupies a special place.

The article examines the level of democracy of the US presidential electoral system and the prospects for its transformation. To do this examination, considerable attention is paying on the main procedural aspects of the US presidential election, in particular, on the features of the organization of primary elections, popular voting and the expression of will of the Electoral College. Using general scientific, logical and empirical research methods, the weaknesses and strengths of the US presidential electoral system are analyzed.

Problem setting. The article deals with the problems of populism in the context of ideology: conservatism and liberalism. The growth of populism comes after the destruction of the liberal consensus, which began after the Cold War, with increasing tension between democratic majority and liberal constitutionalism – the two main pillars of democratic regimes. Strengthening the role of populism shows the gradual loss of the attractiveness of liberal solutions in the field of politics, economy and culture, and ideology.

The article studies the place and the role of international governmental and non-governmental organizations in the democratization of the election in Ukraine.

For many Ukrainians, the “window” into the world of news is television, especially television news. Having studied the news programs of all-Ukrainian channels, it can be noted that despite broadcasting local elections facts on all TV channels, they did not get such great media interest as the presidential or parliamentary ones, which may indicate little attention of central media to local politics.  

The article is devoted to the study of the essence of direct democracy in the context of the implementation of people’s sovereignty. It is substantiated that democracy of participation is one of the most effective and actual types of direct democratic governance in the modern world. The diversity of its institutions makes it possible to participate in the management of the state by every citizen if he has a sufficient level of legal awareness.

Розкрито основні положення проекту Виборчого кодексу України прийнятого в
першому читанні Верховною Радою України 7 листопада 2017 року. Звернено увагу на
позитивні положення проекту та виявлено низку недоліків. Запропоновано можливі
шляхи його вдосконалення, зокрема, спростити структуру кодексу, форму викладу
окремих норм, вдосконалити визначення відповідних термів у проекті та дати їх
визначення на початку кодексу та інше.

This article examines voter eligibility/electoral qualifications as a fundamental part of universal suffrage. The authors use as a basis the typology of electoral qualifications, which provides for their division into 3 major groups: technical, protective and discriminative. In this study, we made a detailed analysis of the electoral limitations belonging to each of these three groups. In particular, among technical qualifications, special attention is paid to the analysis of age, citizenship, capacity, and residency requirements.