ABSTRACT
Paternalism (Latin paternus meaning ‘paternalistic, fatherly’) as the principles and practice of state governance is a mechanism of patronage on the part of the state authority, state control over all spheres of public life (Waitr, 1979). As etatism (From French état meaning ‘a state’), paternalism orients a society to subordinate the public authorities but not to create mechanisms of social compromise and public mind consideration in the process of public decision-making.
