Party of Power: the problem of consolidating the main clusters of political power through the prism of the institution of public opinion

Abstract

The article presents the results of the current analysis of the phenomenon of the party of power based on trends in partogenesis and data from social monitoring in 2019–2021. The author shows that the problem of consolidating the main clusters of political power in modern Russia, considered through the prism of the phenomenon of the party of power, should be solved taking into account the results of the analysis of the institution of public opinion, since it is associated with the processes of legitimizing political power and achieving socio-political consensus. In the context of these opinion polls on key political issues, the phenomenon of the party of power is an integral phenomenon that accumulates social expectations of society, an urgent request for a value-oriented democratic power. At the same time, the modern political party of power does not quite correspond to the parameters of political subjectivity and social expectations. On the one hand, in public consciousness, it is a stronghold and guarantor of stability, a conductor of national interests, and the main factor in the processes of consolidating political power. On the other hand, there is a gap between power and society, between the social expectations of Russians and the modern sociopolitical reality, between the request for democratic participation of citizens in the political processes of the country and the real practice of rotating party elites, electoral behavior, the electoral preferences of Russians and the processes of political governance of the country.