Information and Digital Toolset in a Fight against Liberal Democracy and Values of Open Society

• Author: Vasyl Filipchuk
• Position: Ph.D. in Public Administration, Associate Professor, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv (Kyiv, Ukraine)
• Pages: 34-43

Ukrainian Policymaker, Volume 5, 2019

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Information and Digital Toolset in a Fight against

Liberal Democracy and Values of Open Society

Vasyl Filipchuk1

Ph.D. in Public Administration, Associate Professor, Taras Shevchenko National University

of Kyiv (Kyiv, Ukraine)

E-mail: v.lipchuk@icps.com.ua

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7335-2256

Filipchuk, Vasyl (2019) Information and Digital Toolset in a Fight against Liberal

Democracy and Values of Open Society. Ukrainian Policymaker, Volume 5, 34-43. https://

doi.org/10.29202/up/5/4

The paper analyses the information and digital toolset in a ght against liberal democracy and

values of open society. The overall trend of the present world development is such that transition to

the post-industrial society, with its inherent variety of interests and values of dierent social groups

and organizations, impetuous development of information technologies, etc. leads to transformation of

political institutes of democracy. In connection to this, modern democracy faces serious challenges.

Demands to its eciency and associated expectations have grown, while the ability of democratic states

to solve development problems has not changed much.

Inversion of democracy is also related with globalization and striving for comprehensive security.

The decline of people’s trust in the institutes of modern democracy; permanent growth of expectations

from the regulatory capabilities of politics against the background of minimization of the idea of

responsibility; the growing role of mass media and new uncontrolled decision-making centers that enter

a competition with democratically legitimized institutes lead to atomization of society, its transformation

into a set of autonomous information communities, giving rise to the “democracy of minorities”, on the

one hand, and to а democratic global government, on the other. To survive, democracy needs continuous

exible adaptation to external and internal challenges, as a long-term project. Its future lies in change,

rather than in the desire to preserve stability.

Keywords: digital threats, information challenges, democracy, conict discourse, political cynicism,

post-truth

Received: December 1, 2019; accepted: December 14, 2019

© Filipchuk, Vasyl, 2019