В статье исследуются доктринальные подходы к определению и пониманию правовой природы международных избирательных стандартов.

This article investigates doctrinal approaches to identifying and understanding the nature of international electoral standards. Attention is focused on the question of formation, development, legalization, compliance, performance, ensure safety and protection of suffrage and theelection laws of the election process in which, as a result of particular importance are the direct object of international law that enshrined in several international agreements of universal and regional levels. It is noted that these aspects of the electoral law directly affecting the establishment of a democratic and legal state, international organizations and their statutory and hazing authorities shall develop appropriate regulations, conditions, methods and measures to ensure the transparency of electoral processes and procedures that take the relevant standards in the relevant field in the form of international agreements that include the international legal obligations of states and what are called international election standards.The author argues that the problems of the source base of international electoral standards in the context of their legal nature and doctrinal justification remains valid, as the basis of their special importance for the formation of the democratic state, and so on scientific and pragmatic and praxeological principles that are important for improving the quality of national electoral process and its compliance with international legal guidelines