Imitation Political Regimes as a New Political and Legal Reality. Political and Legal Analysis
The article deals with the formation and development of political regimes in the Post-Socialist states. In many of them, a general tendency occurs towards the formation of neopatrimonial regimes with an enhanced central position of the political leader’s figure hidden behind the facade of modernization, legitimacy, rationality and professional bureaucratic structures. Such regimes are inherently imitative, since it is imitation of democratic institutions that is their main distinguishing feature.