The role of civil society institutions in ensuring social control over political processes

• Serhii O. Komnatnyi National Academy of Internal Affairs https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2124-2047
• Hanna S. Buha Donetsk law institute of MIA of Ukraine https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3957-7387
• Anna M. Fedorova National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8833-6606
• Valerii M. Horovyi National Library of Ukraine named after V. I. Vernadsky https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2644-5249
• Kateryna V. Bortniak Vernadsky Taurida National University https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2135-3820

DOI: https://doi.org/10.46925//rdluz.34.20

Keywords: Social control, Social participation, civil society, democracy

Abstract

The purpose of the article is to investigate the importance and roles of civil society institutions in exercising social control over policy formulation and implementation processes, even in conditions of pandemic contingency. The study has used the methods of comparative analysis, temporal analysis, case study method, statistical data analysis and secondary research of the results of sociological studies. It has been established that civil society institutions play the role of efficient institutions of social control. They are able to mutually strengthen the intentions of the State to ensure the public interest, establish the collaboration of citizens and the cohesion of public efforts. In Ukraine, so far, civil society is at a stage of development and, along with the quantitative characteristics, does not have the appropriate qualitative characteristics. Social control is not authoritarian in nature, nor is it mandatory; it is carried out on behalf of its actors: civil society and citizens.

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