Democracy and Institutional Political Subjectness: Comparative Study for Europe and Central Asia

• Authors: Nataliia Natalina

Title variants

PL

Demokracja i instytucjonalna subiektywność polityczna: studium porównawcze dla Europy i Azji Środkowej

Abstracts

PL

W artykule przedstawiono wyniki analizy porównawczej instytucji politycznych w różnych typach reżimów poprzez wskaźniki ich politycznej subiektywnośći, a mianowicie efektywność rządzenia, orientację rządu na przyszłość oraz zaufanie instytucjonalne. Korelacja między tymi wskaźnikami a poziomem demokratyzacji dla 50 krajów Europy i Azji Centralnej na rok 2021 oraz w dynamice ostatnich 15 lat obliczana jest na podstawie szerokiej bazy danych empirycznych. Badany jest wpływ trendów we współczesnym porządku światowym, takich jak rozwój społeczeństwa sieciowego, cyfryzacja pola politycznego i wpływ międzynarodowych instytucji finansowych, na instytucjonalną agenturę polityczną. Autor dochodzi do wniosku, że skonsolidowane demokracje i autokracje mają wyższy poziom politycznej agencji niż reżimy hybrydowe. Demokracje charakteryzują się wyższym poziomem skuteczności rządzenia, natomiast autokracje są bardziej postrzegane przez swoich obywateli jako te, które są w stanie zapewnić stabilność polityczną i długoterminową wizję przyszłości. W rezultacie reżimy autokratyczne charakteryzują się wyższą dynamiką zaufania instytucjonalnego. Reżimy hybrydowe wykazują większą skłonność do autorytarnych instytucji i tradycji politycznych niż do demokratycznych.

EN

This article presents the results of a comparative analysis of political institutions in different types of regimes through indicators of their political subjectness, namely governance effectiveness, government’s future orientation and institutional trust. The correlation between these indicators and the level of democratisation for 50 countries in Europe and Central Asia as of 2021 and in the dynamics of the last 15 years is calculated on the basis of a broad empirical database. The influence of new world order trends, such as the development of a network society, the digitalisation of the political field and the influence of international financial institutions, on institutional political subjectness is explored. The author concludes that consolidated democracies and autocracies have a higher level of political subjectness than hybrid regimes. Democracies are more effective in governance, but autocracies are more perceived by their citizens as capable of providing political stability and a long-term vision for the future. As a result, autocratic regimes have a higher dynamic of institutional trust. Hybrid regimes demonstrate a greater propensity for authoritarian political institutions and traditions than for democratic ones.

Keywords

EN

political subjectness; institutions; government effectiveness; democracy

PL

subiektywność polityczna; instytucje; skuteczność rządu; demokracja

• Publisher: Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu
• Journal: Przegląd Politologiczny
• Year: 2022
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 17-34

Dates

published

2022

Contributors

author

Nataliia Natalina

• Doniecki Uniwersytet Narodowy imienia Wasyla Stusa, Winnica, Ukraina

• https://orcid.org/0000000329516425

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Identifiers

DOI

10.14746/pp.2022.27.3.2

Biblioteka Nauki

32304203