Deliberative popular constitutionalism and constitutional changes: forms, procedures and technologies in comparative constitutional theory and practice (on the 30th anniversary of the constitution of the Russian Federation in a comparative aspect)

 
PIIS102694520029375-3-1
DOI10.31857/S102694520029375-3
Publication type Article
Status Published
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Occupation: Head of the Department of Theory and History of State and Law and Constitutional Law, Acting Head of the Department of Constitutional and Municipal Law, Chief Researcher, Institute of Philosophy and Law, Novosibirsk State University
Affiliation: Novosibirsk State University
Address: Russian Federation, Novosibirsk
Journal nameGosudarstvo i pravo
EditionIssue 12
Pages48-58
Abstract

The article discusses the doctrinal and normative foundations of deliberative popular constitutionalism, on the one hand, and the forms of constitutional changes - on the other, the procedures and technologies for the participation of citizens and the public participation institute in constitutional modernization in the light of legal forecasting and the development of the scientific foundations of constitutional reform and constitutional design. Deliberative popular constitutionalism is an integrated concept designed to analyze prescriptive requirements and promising principles in the constitutional modernization of the state and society, forms, and procedures for the participation of citizens in constitutional changes, the processes of preparing and implementing constitutional changes in the modern period. As a conclusion, the author of the article notes: deliberative popular constitutionalism is a kind of metatheory that combines the issues of the discursive and deliberative concept of democracy, the doctrine of the constitutional involvement of citizens and the institution of public participation - scientific, professional and otherwise - in matters of constitutional development and constitutional changes.

Keywordsdeliberative popular constitutionalism, constitutional communication, popular sovereignty, legal communication, communicative constitutionalism, equal participation, information society, constitution, constitutional changes
AcknowledgmentThe reported study was funded by Russian Science Foundation according to the research project No 23-28-00627, https://rscf.ru/en/project/23-28-00627/ (“Communicative constitutionalism and constitutional mobilization: the problem of deliberative participation in the public and information space and the transformation of the public power system (concepts, norms and institutional mechanisms)”).
Received06.09.2023
Publication date29.12.2023
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