Methodological approaches to the conceptualization of the idea of "political non-participation" in modern political science

Abstract

The research is devoted to the analysis of modern methodological approaches to the conceptualization of scientific terms, concepts, categories, definitions in determining political non-participation and electoral behavior in modern Western electoral democracies. The basic principles of theorization, operationalization and categorization of scientific concepts are investigated. The article explores fundamentalist and nominalist interpretations of the categories of the political process.