The states of political power in the contemporary hybridically-predetermined world

Aptariama situacija, kai senosios politinės nuostatos netenka poveikio politikos procesams, o naujų dar nėra, jos tik formuojasi. Tuomet pradeda rastis tarpinės nuostatos ar taisyklės, bandančios suderinti tai, kas iš esmės sunkiai suderinama, neigia vienas kitą. Tačiau naujos technologinės galimybės, nauja komunikacinė terpė leidžia bent laikinai funkcionuoti tokiems, hibridiniams, politikos deriniams. Viena iš hibridiškai funkcionuojančio politinio režimo savybių yra bandymas suderinti, sulieti į viena dvi skirtingas tendencijas – biurokratinę tvarką ir politinę iniciatyvą. Šiame tyrime analizuojamos biurokratinio elgesio politikos srityje pasekmės. Parodoma, kaip polinkis biurokratizuoti santykius veda autoritarinio valdymo kryptimiThe article discusses a situation in which old political attitudes lose their influence on political processes, and new processes are not yet fully formed. Transitional attitudes or rules emerge, which try to reconcile matters that in principle are hardly reconcilable and negate one another. However, new technological possibilities and a new medium for communication allow, if only temporarily, for such hybrid political combinations to function. One of the traits of a hybridically-functioning political regime is an attempt to reconcile and merge together two different trends – bureaucratic order and political initiative. The article analyses the consequences of bureaucratic behaviour in politics. It demonstrates how a tendency to bureaucratize relations leads in the direction of authoritarian rule. The combining and the convergence of the real and the imaginary to unified mental and politically-meaningful objects demonstrates a certain potential of the realisation of hybridity. It does not mean that such combinations are lifeless and do not have the potency of effective practice. These unexpected and uncommon combinations allow one more easily to take an adequate position in the current political field. Such a position gives a chance to understand the direction of many variable coordinates and strategise the possibilities in this seldom forecast movement of events. The article presents specific examples: The hybridity of the position of D. Grybauskaitė, in which it is attempted to combine personal attitudes towards politics and oneʼs place in it with a constitutionally-different gamut of possibilities. The example is about the apoliticity of populist parties as the expression of a state of hybridity in political practiceViešosios komunikacijos katedraVytauto Didžiojo universiteta