activation of the role of the state and the clear long-term strategy development can
provide a steady socio-economic growth"[2, p.10].
Under conditions of globalization, when the economy goes beyond the bounds of
the state, the problem of interdependence between the state and the economy becomes
of particular importance for economic methodology. Economic determinism’ followers
associate this process with the dismantling of state institutions in general, with the self-
liquidation of the state as such. Instead, A. S. Galchinsky believes that this problem is
associated with a profound systemic reconstruction of state functions, which are due to
the controversial process of becoming a post-industrial, global society [3, c.471].
We are agree with Galchinsky’s opinion that the modern global information
economy, which operates on-line, is based on a fundamentally different basis. A new
understanding of the need for a systemic separation of political power and economy is
going to change the previous Keynesian and Neo-Keynesian approaches based on the
state's functions expansion. It is about the limiting of state’s economic function and
developing new mechanisms for economy regulation, which will be formed within the
economy itself.
Democratic markers for social state’s models evaluation in Ukraine. After the
declaration of independence and sovereignty of Ukraine as a state, the political power’s
division and formation is conducted in accordance with a democratic regime
characterized by the following features: public sovereignty, political pluralism,
consensual type of political culture, legal guarantees of political, civil and cultural
freedoms. Democracy has its own influence on the economic system as reflected in the
efforts of most democratic states to build a social model of the state.
The transformation of our state’s social structure in the 1990's sets an agenda a
tusk for choosing a model of social policy and the formation of qualitatively new social
institutions. However, so far, social policy in Ukraine is actually built on the principle
of "proper response", the situational distribution of financial and organizational
resources, which provide for the "removal" of the most acute social problems that may
be the cause of social discontent as it is observed in most countries of the world, and
therefore, can become a real threat to political stability and the whole Ukrainian society
democratization course.
There are a lot of foreign literature on the analysis of social policy’s models
functioning in the modern democratic world countries. Such scholars as J. Buchanan,
G. Epsing-Andersen, N. Furniss and T. Tilton, V. Georges and P. Wilding, R. Mishra,
R. Titmuss, F. Fukuyama, etc. are of particular interest for this topic. An important
basis for analyzing the problems identified in the article is the Ukrainian and Russian
scholars’ research where they study the state's social functions transformation
problems in the democracy and globalization conditions in post-Soviet countries. They
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