MODERN AUTHORITARIANISM AND POLITICAL IDEOLOGY

Ideologies of authoritarian and neo-authoritarian regimes are analyzed in the article. The analysis is carried out in three clusters: "rudimentary" authoritarian regimes, post-colonial dictatorships, neo-authoritarian regimes. Within the first cluster regimes are subdivided into two subgroups: authoritarian monarchies and "communist regimes". The regimes united in the third cluster are also subdivided into two subgroups: post-Soviet regimes and neo-authoritarian regimes in Africa, Asia and Latin America. It is noted that in the age of decline of ideologies on a global scale authoritarian and neo-authoritarian regimes as before need political ideologies for legitimacy of their power. However, in contemporary epoch which sets authoritarian and neo-authoritarian regimes before new and much more complicated challenges they are forced to use more flexibility in ideological issues in order to adapt themselves to the rapidly changing world. Ideologies of such regimes lose former integrity and become "multi-layer", eclectic. Such "non-ideological" element as corruption becomes a part of ideologies of neo-authoritarian regimes. But herewith priority of the state as the highest value remains "bearing structure" of political ideologies of all authoritarian and neo-authoritarian regimes. The human being, protection of its rights and liberties are recognized by neo-authoritarian regimes as values that occupy secondary and subordinate place in ideological hierarchy and political practice of these regimes.