Post-Soviet Presidentialized Republics: Factors for Choosing the Form of Government and Difficulties of Its Classification

Martyniuk, Roman and Datsiuk, Oleksii and Romanov, Mykola and Khomych, Tetiana (2023) Post-Soviet Presidentialized Republics: Factors for Choosing the Form of Government and Difficulties of Its Classification. Journal of Public Policy and Administration (7(2)). pp. 56-66. ISSN 2640-2696

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Abstract

In the post-Soviet states of Eastern Europe and Asia, a special presidential form of government was formed, which, in fact, cannot be classified within the trichotomous division of republican forms of government established in modern political science. Attempts by researchers to clearly define this form of government generate real classification chaos. Many scientists tend to see the studied form of government as a presidential version of a mixed republic. Another group of scientists, given the hypertrophy of the constitutional status of the president, perceives it as a certain variant of the presidential republic. In fact, the form of government adopted in many post-Soviet states eclectically combines elements of presidential and mixed republics and at the same time fundamentally does not meet the criteria of both of these forms of government. It is not a presidential republic, since it does not reveal a “hard” division of power and contains certain elements of parliamentarism, and it is not a mixed republic, since it does not have its minimum necessary set of features. Therefore, this form of government cannot be identified with presidential or mixed republics, nor can it be considered as a partial deviation from one of them. The idea of a mixed republic had a significant impact on the latest state-building practice of the post-Soviet states. At the same time, in most of them, the difficult conditions of the initial stage of state formation caused a significant strengthening of the power of the president. The consequence of this was the dominance of the president not only in relation to the system of executive bodies, but also in relation to the state mechanism in general. The transformation of the president into the real head of the executive power distorted the nature of the mixed republic and gave birth to a new hybrid form of government, which combined certain formal and legal features of the mixed republic with the hypertrophied constitutional status of the president.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: mixed republic, presidential republic, transitional presidentialized republic, dualism of executive power, classification of forms of government, parliamentary responsibility of government, countersignature
Subjects: by fields of science > Politics
Divisions: The College of International Relationship > The Department of Political Science
I. Malynovskyi Institute of Law
Depositing User: заввідділу Наталя Денисенко
Date Deposited: 04 Mar 2024 14:41
Last Modified: 04 Mar 2024 14:41
URI: https://eprints.oa.edu.ua/id/eprint/8969

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