Українська академічна спільнота, незважаючи на значний теоретичний масив інформації, й далі перебуває у полоні ілюзій, шаблонів сприйняття та некоректних тлумачень концепта «український кордоцентризм». Філософська дискусія навколо цього концепта є конфліктом міфологій – протистоянням між міфом про унікальний етноментальний феномен та міфом про ілюзію наукової уяви. Водночас вона є конфліктом інтерпретацій – протистоянням між міфічною інтерпретацією класичної доби української філософії та її метафілософською інтерпретацією. Пропонована монографія ознайомлює із філософською позицією автора концепта «український кордоцентризм», його оцінкою цих конфліктів.

The article provides a comprehensive study of the process of democratic transit in the context of its influence on the formation of the image of transitive democracy. The features of the process of democratic transit, its effectiveness, approaches to its implementation are highlighted. The role of modernization of political institutions in the framework of the process of democratic transit and shaping the image of the state is analyzed. There are groups of factors that influence the formation of the image of (...) transitive democracies. The author explores the tools, the use of which will allow to form a positive domestic and foreign political image of a transitive democracy. Transitive democracy, formulating the image must use principles of cognitive super additivity, the phenomenon of synergy will take place at positive influence of totality of information generators. This complex influence creates new character in mental space of individuals and groups, reflecting an image, as a set of the system of descriptions of democratic transit of democracy in a country. System influence of informative sources will allow to extend an audience and carry out permanent informative influence on her. The rates of democratic transit depend on many factors of objective and subjective character. In force their variety does not exist compounding set in good time, by what facilities and in what sequence to operate to the political actors -"architects" of the new state of country, related to democratic reforms. In this connection, producing an image of political, economic and social changes, that take place in framework of corresponding institutes, are universal means that removes critical deprivation, infuses with a hope, faith and conviction of public environment in success of democratic transit. (shrink)

The political and social crises of the past decade in a number of developed democracies have exposed an institutional weakness in both the state and the supranational regulation mechanisms. The result thereof is the decreased legitimacy of the decisions passed and the undermined trust to the existing models of democratic governance in general. The empirical research shows that the contemporary democratic regimes feature a dramatic deterioration of democratic legitimacy, at least among the public. Even when in operation, the full-fldged democratic (...) mechanisms are signifiantly limited in their applications. The elite circles pass decisions pursuing their own interests by using democratic institutes. At the same time, the globalization trends also create serious challenges: with decision-making moved up to the supranational level of power, the public signifiantly lose their inflence on shaping the political course, which results in the loss of trust to and support of the government institutions. Reference to the methodological frame introduced within the post-democracy concept allows fistly to reveal the key characteristic features of the socio-political development, and secondly to bring out the specifi nature and the main challenges facing the contemporary democratic regimes and legitimation of political decisions in particular. Looking into the main tendencies of post-democratic development, namely social group identifiation diffusion, evisceration of the personality of mass political parties, marketisation of political representation, intertwining of state and the private sectors, commercialization of citizenship, have proved them to cause changes in the conventional content of legitimation practices. The cardinal challenge of post-democratic development is the commercialized power legitimacy as this phenomenon has the potential for replacing the traditional civil forms of public participation in public life with political consumerism and for transforming accordingly the ideas of the place and the role of a citizen as a subject of the political process while technocratizing the political governance even further. The risk created by the trends described above include dependence of the legitimacy of the contemporary democratic regimes on the adequate level of economic stability and wellbeing of people, which is extremely diffiult to keep maintaining under non-linear development and risks brought about by the globalization processes. An economic collapse conditioned by the external factors or ineffective decisions made by the political elite is more than likely to provoke a crisis resulting in social tension or even a social conflct. Therefore, gradually commercialized legitimation practices of political decision-making in the contemporary democratic regimes bear more risks for the political elites and society as a whole in the longer term than sticking to the traditional forms of winning and maintaining people’s trust. (shrink)