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THE METHODOLOGY OF THE RESEARCH OF

POLITICAL ELITES

Lyubomyra Mandziy

Ivan Franko National University of Lviv

Universytetska st., 1, Lviv, 79000,Ukraine, e-mail: Ця електронна адреса захищена від спам-ботів, Вам потрібно включити JavaScript для перегляду

The article was devoted to the methodology of the research of political elites. The concepts

of the political elite and political class were analyzed. The interpretation of the political elite in the

frames of value-based and structural - functional approaches was outlined and its lineament as a

group that rule the society was presented. The methods of research of the political elite and the

political class were described.

Keywords: the political elite, the political class, a power, the value-based approach, the

structural – functional approach, the positional analysis, a reputational method of analysis of making

strategic decisions.