Abstract:
This article is an attempt to define indicators of the crisis of legitimacy of power with the balance of people`s trust and distrust in some government and non-government institutions. The fielding is based on surveys and interviews carried out by the Institute of Sociology of NAS of Ukraine, "The Fund for Democratic initiatives" by Ilko Kucheriv, Fazumkov Center, Kyiv International Institute of Sociology. Determined that the legitimacy of the government in terms of support and loyalty from the citizens and international partners can become hybrid or fragmented. In contrast to the established European practices of changing the illegitimate political regime through elections, in Ukraine, the illegitimate regime can continue to exist separately from society itself. The illegitimacy of power may not lead to the collapse of the political regime. By comparing the balance of trust and distrust in certain government and non-government institutions in Ukraine in 2014-2020. it is proved that a high degree of civil activity is the cause and the result of the loss of government legitimacy. Ukrainian political practice has proved that the biggest enforcement uses the last legitimate power. And in the political system of Ukraine contradictions significantly distorts public opinion and the level of loyalty to the government, which determines its legitimacy.
