The peculiarities of democratic transit in Ukraine in the frame of the system’s transformation

Abstract

In the article, a detailed analysis of the factors that determinate success of democratic transition is necessary to establish why Ukraine is unable to overcome transition and why totalitarian tendencies have lately become so overspread. The author claims that transition from authoritarians to democracy can happen in different way. There are two groups of factors that influence the characters of transition: structural, namely the social-economic/cultural and value–related preconditions that promote (or hinder) the establishment and strengthening of democratic institutions and norms; and procedural, namely the decision-making process by direct participants of democratic changes.
Key words: democracy transit, theory of neopatrimonial, transformation, Ukraine.