Конституционные преобразования в постсоветском регионе: результаты предшествующих исследований

Армянский политологический журнал. 2017. Т. 5. № 1. С. 81–114.

Medushevsky A. N.

The article examines political effect of constitutional changes in post-Soviet states during the last 25 years. All constitutional amendments adopted in post- Soviet states are analyzed and systematized to ensure the balance of constitutional powers in changing social conditions. The article introduces the classification of all amendments on the basis of formal juridical criteria and on the set of criteria proposed by political scientists, as well as reveals the real and potential conflicts between branches of power which could be provoked by the applied forms and methods of constitutional revision. The article makes a detailed analysis of institutes involved in the process of amendments discussion and adoption, as well as formal and informal procedures of the amendment process. The methods of comparative-legal studies and cognitive constitutionalism are being used. The revelation of real motives of constitutional revision, legal and political forms and technologies provides the possibility of reliable explanation of ambiguous constitutional reform trends, achievements, failures and pitfalls of political transformation. It opens the way for the fullfledged constitutional engineering, independent constitutional monitoring and the possibility to forecast the prospective political trends of “new democracies” in post-Soviet space.

Publication based on the results of: Конституционные поправки как инструмент трансформации политических режимов в странах постсоветского региона (2017)