Impactul mentalității asupra calităţii democraţiei în societăţile de tranziţie a Federației Ruse, Ucrainei și Republicii Moldova [Articol]

Abstract

In this article are examined actual meanings of transition, the quality of democracy and mentality. The authors strongly emphasize the complexity of these phenomena, the correlations between them in the current conditions of the Russian Federation, Ukraine and Moldova. This study includes specific aspects of the common mentality in those countries, related to the common historical past of the Tsarist Empire and the Soviet Union. Namely, the legacy of authoritarian and totalitarian mentality common historical past influences today’s low quality of democracy, democratization of political life problems. The quality of democracy in these three countries depends directly on the local and current mentality, culture and mentality of political fragmentation phase transition. In this context the authors examine the paradoxes mentality and democracy in that country.