Phantom Party of Ukraine

Abstract

The paper deals with the problem of quantitative and qualitative functioning of the political parties in modern Ukraine. It studies particular political structures which avoid their active political positioning, have an unsystematic, sporadic character of their political activity, and imitate their active participation in the political life. Existence of the “phantom” parties in the Ukrainian political system has destructive influence on the development of the whole Ukrainian party system, as it withholds the necessary qualitative changes of the political process.