Ценностные основания рекрутирования современных политических элит: проблемы и перспективы

The idea that today ideological values play accidental and instrumental role in the process of political elites’ recruitment is postulated in this article. The reason is that classic meta-ideologies (i.e. liberalism, conservatism, and social democracy) have lost preciseness of the borders of their positioning because of mutual value borrowing and formation of a so-called consensus value core. However, the absence of the real competence of strategic alternatives is arguably nothing else but the beginning of social and political system decline in the wake of transition to «repeated mixing simplification», as it was stated by K. Leontiev. It comes as no surprise, that liberal model of democratic «society of consumption», which is imposed in the process of globalization as universal, causes obstinacy in many countries and leads to different conflicts.