Corruption in Ukraine and the World as a Trigger for the Weakening of the State

The article analyzes corruption as an extra-legal phenomenon that destroys the morality and values of society, threatens democracy human rights, deforms functions state power, discrediting it both within country in international arena. It is noted formation dysfunctions sphere public administration not main socio-political danger corruption.The threat "corrosion" gradual destruction social ties system regulation, control functioning institutions creating. sociological legal interpretation made possible to study a trigger weakens statehood, reveal mechanism influence on institutions, assess political, economic, legal, socio-structural psychological factors its spread. authors characterize foreign domestic “models” ways counteracting from standpoint ontological approach; she also has identified markers reflect specificity Ukraine; real assessment degree effectiveness anti-corruption actions Ukraine are presented; expediency analyzing aspect, especially mechanisms, forms methods Ukrainian spreading world services penetration transnational into political economic space; revealed effect structure state, result which process regulation loses value. shown stable, actively "mutating", adaptive majority changes, nature does only reproduces tolerant attitude government significant part public, but inhibits democratic transformations consciousness Ukrainians. emphasized "salus populi" most pragmatic option among systemic models fighting (totalitarian, authoritarian, liberal).