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In today's conditions, the protracted systemic crisis in the world economic order has intensified the tendency to replace in the practice of state-building the concept of free access democracy with a neo-conservative model of restricted access. In fact, it is a question of an attempt by the ruling elites to take revenge for the forced period of existence of a socially oriented state. Opposition to civil society forces ideologues of neo-conservatism to more substantiate the need to reject the basic principles of democracy. This problem was raised in one form or another in the studies of B. Weingast, D. Wollis, I.Wallerstein, D. North, J. Norton, N. Khomsky. However, in the national political science literature, the issue of global conservative social revenge for the purpose of replacing the democratic system with free access to the system of restricted access has hardly been reflected. The purpose of this article is to consider the main points of the neo-conservative ideology, which are aimed at the forced dismantling of the model of free-access democracy in modern state-building practice. The basis of political means of countering the resistance of the masses is the idea of «narrowing the feedback», that is, the ability of citizens to influence political processes. From this point of view, the vigorous appeal of conservatives to a «strong state» should be considered. In the institutional framework, neoconservatism proposes replacing the representative model of democracy with the functional representation of technocratic and managerial staff. In some countries, since the beginning of the new millennium, there has been a tightening of legislation envisaging sanctions for «violations of public order». Expanded police rights. Weakened restrictions on the use of extreme forms of violence. Serious blows to the trade union movement. Discriminatory practices are being increasingly applied to individuals involved in the fight against the policy of «social revenge» and the dismantling of democratic institutions. The danger of such trends is determined not only by their direct significance, but also by the fact that they create conditions for the authoritarian restructuring of political institutions, which is increasingly openly pursued by ideologues of conservatism.

In today's conditions, the protracted systemic crisis in the world economic order has intensified the tendency to replace in the practice of state-building the concept of free access democracy with a neo-conservative model of restricted access. In fact, it is a question of an attempt by the ruling elites to take revenge for the forced period of existence of a socially oriented state. Opposition to civil society forces ideologues of neo-conservatism to more substantiate the need to reject the basic principles of democracy. This problem was raised in one form or another in the studies of B. Weingast, D. Wollis, I. Wallerstein, D. North, J. Norton, N. Khomsky. However, in the national political science literature, the issue of global conservative social revenge for the purpose of replacing the democratic system with free access to the system of restricted access has hardly been reflected. The purpose of this article is to consider the main points of the neo-conservative ideology, which are aimed at the forced dismantling of the model of free-access democracy in modern state-building practice. The basis of political means of countering the resistance of the masses is the idea of «narrowing the feedback», that is, the ability of citizens to influence political processes. From this point of view, the vigorous appeal of conservatives to a «strong state» should be considered. In the institutional framework, neoconservatism proposes replacing the representative model of democracy with the functional representation of technocratic and managerial staff. In some countries, since the beginning of the new millennium, there has been a tightening of legislation envisaging sanctions for «violations of public order». Expanded police rights. Weakened restrictions on the use of extreme forms of violence. Serious blows to the trade union movement. Discriminatory practices are being increasingly applied to individuals involved in the fight against the policy of «social revenge» and the dismantling of democratic institutions. The danger of such trends is determined not only by their direct significance, but also by the fact that they create conditions for the authoritarian restructuring of political institutions, which is increasingly openly pursued by ideologues of conservatism.