“New Democracies” under Conditions of Economic Globalization. Problems and Perspectives of Development

The article deals with the analysis of the impact of economic globalization on the progress of democratization “third wave” democratization. Basing on the economic and political statistics data the author makes attempt to reveal the nature of the impact of the liberalization of commodity, financial and industrial interactions within the global economic system on the level of culturally-based demand for political freedom as well as the level of its institutional offer in the countries of the “new democracy”.

The article focuses on the ambivalent effect which the process of involvement of the societies undergoing democratization into the global division have on their political culture. on the one hand, economic globalization, on the one hand, encourages spreading in mass conscience of secular and rational values that are manifested in the expansion of political participation. on the other hand, the majority of “the third wave” countries are held within the periphery and semi-periphery of the world economy. This situation contributed to preserving in their mass culture prevalence of survival values, shaping a limited demand for political freedom.

The author concludes that increasing competition in global markets makes the governments to cut down social expenses what in its turn provokes mass protest and lead the ruling elites of new democratic states to choosing a policy of limited institutional offer of political freedom. And this kind of policy means moving towards non-liberal form of democracy. 

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