are N. Volgin, V. Gordin, V. Goshovska, A. Kolot, E. Lianov, V. Lublin, A.
Krentosaska, M. Carlin and others.
However, today there is no unity among scientists in the understanding of social
policy functional mechanisms regarding the objective needs' realization Ukrainian
society socio-economic development. It is particularly traceable in the post-crisis
economy, where there is no correlation between political and economic research, which
leads to discrepancies between the Ukrainian state’s political statements declaration
and their real possibilities to provide.
Turning to the history of the "social state" concept’s emergence it should be noted
that for the first time this term was officially used in the 1949 in the Constitution of the
Federal Republic of Germany and, literally, only afterwards entered into a broad
scientific circle. The works of G. Ritter (Germany), K. Sole (Spain), A. Brown (USA),
M. Bonetti (France) were devoted to the enlightenment of social state theoretical
foundations. The "social state" concept in its content is broader than the "rightful state"
concept, because it reflects not only the social freedom’s degree, but also the social
justice one. The social state’s essence is to promote the formation of such modern
society’s elements as social market economy, social democracy, social ethics [4].
Thus, the social market economy provides for the creation of favorable conditions
for the all population’s segments inclusion to the market mechanism at the
microeconomic level, as well as the minimum wage establishment is not lower than the
level of the cost of living, granting of subsidies to low-income categories of the
population, the all types of social insurance development and social partnership’s
mechanism security.
In turn, social democracy reveals the content of various types (territorial,
industrial, professional) self-government and its organic connection with the rightful
state.
It should be emphasized that both the ideological process in society and the
definition of role that state gives to the ideologies extension are an important features
for national political regime. On our opinion, the symbiosis of at least two major
political ideologies - social democratic and liberal - prevails now in Ukraine. The final
national ideology’s determination process is still ongoing in the country, and the
country’s socio-economic development level plays one of the main role in it.
Thus, the social-democratic ideology based on E. Bernstein’s ideas prefers state
regulation of the economy and recognizes the private property economic efficiency, as
well as advocates for maintaining social equilibrium by increasing budget expenders
on the social sphere.
With regard to liberal ideology, it has gone through a difficult path in its
evolutionary development, and now it is possible to distinguish the following
approaches: classical liberalism, social liberalism, neoliberalism, liberalism. Thus,
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