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Scientific Object Identifier: http://s-o-i.org/1.1/TAS-10-66-27
DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.15863/TAS.2018.10.66.27
Language: English
Citation: Hajiyeva, V. (2018). To oligarchy through democracy or to disorder through order. ISJ Theoretical & Applied Science, 10 (66), 235-247. Soi: http://s-o-i.org/1.1/TAS-10-66-27 Doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.15863/TAS.2018.10.66.27 |
Pages: 235-247
Published: 30.10.2018
Abstract: Three decades ago, peoples of post-Soviet republics began building liberal democratic states according their historic and cultural demands. The state-building process was painful and accompanied by conflict, and it resulted in a different construction-oligarchy. In this article, I analyze the network of the problem’s national, regional and global conditions at the theoretical level because of similar tendencies. I notice that one of the main conceptual problems of democratization in the region is the absence of an appropriate transitional pattern that considers its social and regional pillars. In this region, authoritarianism was a bridge for the oligarchy as well as a natural result of mass democracy. I also explain that a liberal system, having inherent “soft violence”, moves toward authoritarianism, weakening the middle class. I argue that the region’s process is not unusual but is an organic part of the present global problem of liberal democracy.
Key words: Liberal democracy; oligarchy; post-Soviet; democratization; inequality.
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