STATES IN TRANSITION AND CHALENGES OF DEMOCRATIZATION

Abstract

Democratic transition was not entirely successful in the former socialist countries, especially in the field of economic reform. In the field of political and institutional changes, the results are satisfactory only if democracy, as the preferred direction and scope of these changes, is understood in procedural terms. Thus speaking, the transition is adopted political pluralism, elections, political equality and the absence of government repression to the citizens. Causes of half success of transition are numerous: heritage and authoritarian political culture, poorly conducted privatization, demands of the world's leading economic and monetary sources of power whose interests are primarily governed by increasing equity, immature political elite without the statesman's vision and leadership. Of all these, the latter seems primary in relation to other. The responsibility of political and managerial elite is the most precisely because its task should be changed to a better society, and the successful resolution of social problems and potential causes of civil dissatisfaction, regardless of their difficalty.