DETERMINATION OF THE ROLE OF YOUTH IN SOCIETY IN CONDITIONS OF POLITICAL UNCERTAINTY AND FEATURES OF FORMATION OF STATE YOUTH POLICY

Abstract

The article investigates actual scientific study problems of determining the role of youth in society in conditions of political uncertainty and the peculiarities of the formation of state youth policy. The author defined that the state youth policy is a system of institutions that contains various elements (educational and pedagogical, political and legal, institutional and organizational and financial and economic). Youth policy has a managerial impact on youth as a unique phenomenon of society to ensure the fullest use of youth as a potential and resource and to achieve management goals. The article proves that from the point of view of public administration, young people act both as a key object of managerial influence and as an active, flexible and powerful resource and potential for socio-economic and political action. It is this subject – the objective role of youth in society and in public administration that makes them most sensitive to political and economic change, quick to respond to calls and situational actions. Political uncertainty or crisis that aggravate contradictions and problems in the community are key factors for growth activity of young people to participate in social and economic processes and are likely threatened by rapid ideological “polarization” of youth. This can either contribute to the involvement of young people as a valuable resource in the “arsenal” of public administration, or its loss. The author summarizes the key features of the formation of state youth policy in conditions of political and economic uncertainty or crisis, which need to be implemented both through the institutions of youth policy and with the participation of other institutions of public administration. These features are divided into two blocks: – strategically oriented, ideological bloc, which is formed and implemented over several generations and helps to direct the potential of youth to creativity, generation of positive ideas and changes taking into account the object-subjectivity of youth and eliminates the threat of its possible ideological “polarization”; – tactically oriented, socio-economic bloc, which requires short- and medium-term solutions and contributes to the creation of socio-economic conditions for social formation and development of young citizens of Ukraine in the interests of the individual, society and state.