Social Factors as Criteria for Forming an Idea of Political Responsibility

Abstract

The review article outlines and analyzes individual scientific approaches to the problem of political responsibility, which indicate that this is an extra-legal responsibility, both axiologically and in terms of activity. Thus, the combination of this concept with the legal norms of law does not create a positive basis for the separation of political responsibility into an independent form of responsibility. The results of the analysis identified problems that are not well-researched in the scientific community, namely the definition of an exhaustive range of subjects of political responsibility, criteria and the procedure for its application. The definition of political responsibility is taken into account taking into account already existing scientific approaches with application of the extended range of political relations to this concept. It is proposed to consider this issue in the context of the socio-psychological attitude of political relations subjects to public-spatial relations in combination with the material (institutional) components of the social organization of public administration. Attention is drawn to the non-legal nature of political responsibility and the social criteria for bringing to political responsibility. Thus, the article draws attention to the fact that the main criterion for assessing and applying political responsibility to the representatives of government institutions is a social factor, which is an indicator that reflects the level of their support to the public and reflects the rating of authority and non-alternativeness in the public space. At the same time, the lack of clear criteria for the use of political responsibility and the legal uncertainty regarding the exhaustive list of political positions does not create a sustainable development of this issue, which further gives new scientific impulses for the improvement of the existing scientific approaches to the application of responsibility in the public space.