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Process of intensive corrosion
Volodymyr Lupatsiy, executive director of the Center for social studies “Sofia”  The demand for a strong upper hand will result not from paternalism, but from the institutional paralysis and growth of social anarchy.
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Our people begin understanding policy in a better way
Natalia Pohorila, Candidate of Sociology  The democracy in Ukraine is perceived as a desired and useful thing; thence the positive estimation. However, they do not see it as life in uncertainty. Instead, the daily needs include corruption control, jobs, and confidence in the future. Otherwise people start panicking and looking forward for upper hand. They want somebody to introduce order. But it does not endanger democracy or apply authoritarianism. Simply the ruling party after long-lived uncertainty can lose its support.
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Nostalgia for paternalism
Olga Balakireva, Candidate of Sociology, chief of the dept. of socio-economic transformations monitoring, E-in-Chief of the Ukrayinskyi Socium Journal  The gap between the ideal and responsible activity motivation has more than one cultural explanation: we were trained under public wardship. However, today individualization is under way and, probably, people need some time to grasp the simple idea that the community is not a sum of individual lives, but groups with normal communications, where joint effort is more effective.
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Once Ukraine gets over paternalism, Ukraine will become an independent European state in 15 years
Yevhen Holovakha, Deputy Director of the Institute of Sociology, Head of the Department of History, Theory and Methodology of sociology, Prof., PhD  In paternalistic society the kinship is the first priority attracting the best preferences and the primary source of top execs.
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These are not paternalistic moods, but dissatisfaction of citizens with the level of social protection
Vitaliy Kulyk, Director of the Center of Civil Society Studies  To my mind, the Ukrainian polity is endangered by glamor populism exploiting authoritarian methods in political strife and transferring it to governance.
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Combination of paternalistic expectations from below and paternalistic demagogy from above
Victor Nebozhenko, political scientist.  The miracle of the origin of Ukraine does not presuppose the possibility of a designed development. It is necessary to have the guts and acknowledge that our system is nothing but imitation of western democracies and cultural structuring of power. Our elite do not belong to the responsible decision makers. Evidently, it does not need it and can not do it.
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The Russian-style authoritarianism is impossible in Ukraine
Oleksiy Garan, Doctor of History, Prof., Kyiv Mohyla Academy, Scientific Director of the School of Political Analysis  “All present doings in the Parliament show that every faction is eager to demonstrate that there will be a no-go situation if their ideas are not taken into consideration.”
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Paternalism, as well as drug addiction, has no limits, until you take an overdose.
Dmytro Vydrin, political scientist  Our elite will not agree to lose its accounts in Europe and America, possibility to educate their children in the best colleges and universities of Great Britain, and spend their holidays at the top class resorts in exchange for a good firm hand. Our leaders are not ready to sacrifice these benefits. Even anti-NATO protesters go to NATO countries for medical treatment and gladly place their assets there. Therefore, even the light Belarus-style authoritarianism is impossible in Ukraine.
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Paternalism produces power
Liudmyla Shangina, UTSEPI named after Razumkov  A man in Ukraine does not depend on his labor; he is not the master of his destiny. According to our sociological survey, 90% of citizens do not consider themselves fully accountable for the things happening to them.
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The main problem is the low efficiency of power
Olexandr Stegniy, leading researcher of the Institute of Sociology of the Academy of Sciences  Making no headway, when one opposition changes another and proclaims public welfare doing nothing, makes people skeptical. The fatigue syndrome caused by permanent politicking makes one desire the upper hand putting everything right. The rising passivism and inclination toward authoritarianism proceed from the low efficiency of administration and not paternalism.
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Authoritarianism & democracy: partners or antipodes?
Olexandr Shmorhun, leading researcher of the Institute of World Economy and International Relations, senior researcher of the Institute of European Studies of the NAS of Ukraine  One should not equate the questions of authoritarianism, charisma leadership, and paternalism with the negative social phenomena. The undemocratic practices should not be considered as the basic lack of democracy. To my mind, it is not correct to equate authoritarianism and paternalism with the softened variety of totalitarianism. It is a more complex issue. If we do not realize it now and do not include it into the alternative model of government, Ukraine may lose one of its last chances.
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