solving the economic development contradictions in the conditions of the NTR,
stimulating factors of growth, productivity and innovation, and in political terms
ensured social stability, contributed to the justice and solidarity principles
consolidation. The age of the social state actually redirected the civilization vector,
accompanied by attempts to revise the socio-economic growth principles and the
state’s role, changing the national income redistribution nature.
However, society does not stand in one place, but it constantly develops under the
pressure of many factors, both political and economic, which necessitate the policy
update. Social policy modernization is a natural and necessary process due to the
economy and social structure transformation. Russian researcher V. V. Lublin pointed
that in the 1970's the West’s development long-term cycle connected with the social
state's mechanisms formation had come to the end. However, in the time following, the
previous economic development conditions had undergone significant changes, which
led to the beginning of a new social state’s development stage, whose boundaries are
largely determined by both the world economic processes’ transformation and the
modern countries political and ideological development’s course [6, p. 130].
According to the Western researchers’ position, the main problem now is that the
state loses the ability to control the process of capital transfer. The industrially
advanced countries’ governments, which tried to combat unemployment, had to make
a concerted turn to the "supply-side policy". The goal was to set a minimum level of
return for productive investment above that provided in international markets. One of
the main points in this scheme is that it is becoming increasingly difficult to finance
"big social policy", since the necessary borrowing in the new environment becomes
more costly compared to the previous period when governments were more likely to
attract additional resources. From certain time, these changes began to form the
strategy’s boundaries aimed at changing the state’s role and functions in the economy
and social development.
Such a policy is aimed at transforming the model, based on the new context of
interaction between different industry and corporate interests, social partners and social
groups. One of the key aspects is the change in the balance between factors of
production (capital and labor), which is reflected in the entrepreneurs’ position
strengthening at the society level and the main state’s efforts are aimed at increasing
the competition policy effectiveness.
Therefore, now Ukraine faces a choice which role the state should play in the
economic processes’ regulation in the country and depending on the solution to this
question, which ideology it should prevail in the public life development. However, it
should be emphasized that in Ukraine, as a democratic state, at the Constitution level
has established that the social life is based on the political, economic and ideological
diversity principles (Part 1, Article 15). This means that no ideology can be recognized
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