The democratic political regime essence and its main constituents are investigated. The main approaches for the analyses of social transformations are considered. It is emphasized that evolution of the society transmits from mechanical to organic solidarity and the successful democratization of society is impossible without national unity of citizens of the state. A notion of “democratic transit”, a democratic transit model and its stages have been identified. A final target of democratic transit has been revealed as a formation of consolidated democracy, such a political state when a society consolidates according to democratic norms and values. The author emphasizes the increase of social capital on the basis of confidence to political institutions and people towards each other, political tolerance and readiness to compromise and cooperation to be one of factors establishing consolidated democracy. It has been ascertained that the basis of consolidated democracy and national unity is a collective political identity of citizens. The role of political identity in the process of forming consolidated democracy in Ukraine has been highlighted. The conclusion has been made that political identification plays a leading part in forming motivation to people’s political activity, to uniting their efforts for decision of socially important tasks.

Исследуются сущность, основные подходы к анализу общественных трансформаций, модели и факторы демократической трансформации общества, определяется роль политической идентичности как основы консолидированной демократии и национального единства. Делается вывод, что демократическая консолидация основывается на позитивно ориентированной идентичности вокруг выбора модели демократического развития.