FORMATION OF PARTY’S POLITICAL CAPITAL: REGIONAL PECULIARITIES 

Skosareva Madina Akhmedullakhovna, Postgraduate student, Penza State University (40 Krasnaya street, Penza, Russia), pgu_gpd@mail.ru, gpd@pnzgu.ru 

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Background. Changes in the political system of the Russian society make it necessary to study the political processes which determine the activities of political actors, in particular, political parties and movements. Such processes include formation of political capital. The goal of the study is to analyze the theoretical foundations of political capital and explore the regional peculiarities of its formation (for example, political parties and movements in the Penza region).
Materials and methods. Implementation of the tasks was achieved on the basis of the analysis of definitions of political capital, as well as highlighting its main characteristics, in which it manifests itself. Then with the help of a questionnaire the author investigated factors of the formation of political capital in conditions of the region.
Results. The resercher studied statistical materials about the activities of political parties and movements in the Penza region, their involvement in the management, as well as public opinion of the residents of Penza and Penza region, examined through representative sample, expressing their attitude and confidence to the power structures, the role of political parties and movements in the activities of these structures. Based on the obtained results the author identified three groups of factors: socio-economic and institutional, political and psychological, political status of the party.
Conclusions. The study of statistics and the survey of public opinion suggests that the accumulation of political capital of a political party depends on the electoral strategies of political interaction of the authorities, political parties and citizens in the region. 

political capital, political parties, region.

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