Form of Government and State Regime: The Issue of the Effectiveness of the Lawmaking Process

Russian legal literature offers a range of scientific publications on the form and essence of constitutions, as well as the efficiency of the legislative process in the Russian Federation. One of the authors who have made a significant contribution to the resolution of these problems is Professor N.A. Mikhaleva. These problems were the determining directions of all scientific work of this famous national scientist-constitutionalist and are covered in this article. These problems have always caused and will cause vivid scientific interest, but not only because there are many great states with different socio-economic systems. Governance, public regime, political and territorial structure and functioning are regulated by the constitutions in different ways. But also because states themselves, constitutions governing their activities, their content, form and substance are in constant development. The existing scientific publications regarding these issues suggest different solutions to these problems. For example, N.A. Mikhaleva justly connected the problem of effectiveness of the highest government bodies in the legislative process with the effectiveness of the activities of the subsidiary organs of the state. Other authors attribute this to the form of Government established by the Constitution. This article attempts to reconcile this problem not only with the form of Government, but actually folded within each form of Government, regimes that develop under the influence of various factors. The authors suggests a thesis that under such a variety of the state regime as presidentialism, under semi-presidential form of Government, we should talk about an effective adoption of laws as political "associates" of different branches of power can easily "negotiate" among themselves, but the effectiveness of the implementation of the provisions of such legislation will largely depend on the quality of their content. In other cases of the state (a dualist or parliamentary presidentialism), on the contrary, we can talk about the known difficulties with the adoption of the federal laws (because of the difficulty of compromise between the opposing political forces in the different branches of Government), but the possible effectiveness of their implementation through reached compromises and reconciling the language.

state mode, lawmaking process, constitution, Mikhaleva, public authorities, the system of checks and balances, form of Government, the effectiveness of the legislation

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