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

• Author: 33-40
• Position: Doctor of Philosophy, Associated Professor, National Pedagogical Dragomanov University (Kyiv, Ukraine)/PhD, Associated Professor, National Pedagogical Dragomanov University (Kyiv, Ukraine)
• Pages: Denys Svyrydenko and Olena Yatsenko

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Dialectics of Nominal and Real Power in the

Ukrainian and World Politics

Denys Svyrydenko1

Doctor of Philosophy, Associated Professor, National Pedagogical Dragomanov University

(Kyiv, Ukraine)

E-mail: denis_sviridenko@ukr.net

ORCID: 0000-0001-6126-1747

Olena Yatsenko2

PhD, Associated Professor, National Pedagogical Dragomanov University (Kyiv, Ukraine)

E-mail: yatsenkood@gmail.com

ORCID: 0000-0003-0584-933X

The philosophical problem of representation becomes of particular relevance in modern politics.

Publicity and responsibility of the power for the eectiveness of its work creates a dierentiation 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 eectiveness 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.

Key Words: nominal power, real power, noumenal power, creative class, social freedom, democratic

liberalism

Received January 15, 2018; accepted April 12, 2018

Ukrainian Policymaker, Volume 2, 2018: 33-40

DOI: 10.29202/up/2/5

Introduction

Modern information society produces an increasing role of representative processes and

phenomena. Widespread use in the humanities embodies the concept of simulation, or simulative

© Svyrydenko, Denys, 2018

© Yatsenko, Olena, 2018