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Dialectics of Nominal and Real Power in the Ukrainian and World Politics
Dialectics of Nominal and Real Power in the Ukrainian and World Politics

Author(s): Denys Svyrydenko, Olena Yatsenko
Subject(s): Political Philosophy, Government/Political systems, Studies in violence and power, Ontology
Published by: Международное философско-космологическое общество
Keywords: nominal power; real power; nominal power; creative class; social freedom; democratic liberalism;

Summary/Abstract: The philosophical problem of representation becomes of particular relevance in modern politics. Publicity and responsibility of the power for the effectiveness of its work creates a differentiation to the nominal and real power. There is a dual tendency: the subjects of real power delegate proxy to the representatives of the nominal power, trying to avoid publicity and responsibility. Representatives of the nominee power create an impression of the reality and effectiveness of the realization of power. The dialectic of nominal and real power in society is carried out by means of the formation of surrogate forms of government: democracy-monarchy, democracy-oligarchy, democracy-aristocracy; ductility in the work of state institutions and commercialized support by the creative class. To direct the contradictions of nominal and real power in a productive direction is possible by increasing the publicity and responsibility of the subjects of power.

  • Issue Year: 2/2018
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 33-40
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: English