The article defines the essence of socio-political phenomena, denoted by political terms “civilizational styles of development of political processes” and “national styles of development of political processes”, included in the passport of the scientific specialty 23.00.02 “Political institutions, processes and technologies”, author's definitions of these terms, the first of which indicates a qualitative characteristic of the totality of methods, methods, methods of activity of policy actors, systems according to the criteria worked out by concrete civilizational theories, and the second is a set of stable structural, functional, institutional, regulatory, legal, communicative and activity characteristics of the qualitative characteristics of political processes that vary according to the cultural traditions of specific nations. In the author's opinion, the term “civilizational style of the development of the political process” acquires a theoretical and practical significance only for the characteristics of nationally undefined civilizational models of political processes, and the term “national style of development of the political process” - when it is correlated with a specific nation. It is suggested to study the national styles of development of political processes on the materials of regions having places of compact residence of national, ethnic groups that have specific socio-cultural values, manifested in the forms and methods of activity of actors in the political process.
