Incentive Norms in Constitutional Law

The paper conducts a comprehensive study of the mechanism of the incentivizing influence of constitutional law norms on social relations, provides a definition of the concept of incentive regulation in constitutional law, and identifies the types of incentive norms in constitutional law. To date, the topic of a comprehensive analysis of the content of incentive norms in constitutional law remains insufficiently studied and therefore relevant. Rethinking the role of incentive norms can be fruitfully applied to the analysis of constitutional legal doctrine and to the issues of legal design of constitutional legal relations. The refusal to introduce legal incentives in certain areas of human behavior may be explained by the need to preserve non-legal motives and norms that govern human behavior in the absence of legal intervention. The results of the study show that an incentive should be understood as a special legal means that motivates persons subject to the law to positive behavior expressed in a regulatory direction. The state gets the maximum effect from the use of incentives when «soft» incentives are used in conjunction with binding instruments. It is noted that the practice of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation influences the increasing stimulating effect of constitutional law norms. Encouragement, along with such types of incentives as benefits and privileges, is a promising method of stimulating lawful behavior, ensuring discipline and law and order.

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