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К вопросу об «антимонопольном» регулировании политической конкуренции: конституционно-правовые аспекты
The article analyzes one of the aspects of the legal protection of competition in politics related with the introduction of «antitrust» regulation in politics by analogy with the economic sphere. The prospects for regulation of the political market in the Russian Federation are considered both based on an economic approach and taking into account constitutional nature of political competition and issues of legal regulation of political relations. As the author notes, it is permissible to use the economic approach for the purposes of understanding the mechanism of political competition, which is also confirmed in the works of Russian and foreign scholars. The possibility of introducing an «anti-monopoly regulation» in the political market by analogy with regulation of market relations in economics is considered as one of the direction for protecting political competition. The article analyzes the prospect of involving an independent «regulator» in the political field and the possibility of endowing the existing authorities with the functions of protecting political competition. Nowadays political competition is indirectly an object of administrative regulation, which covers only some aspects of electoral procedures constitutes an insignificant part of the total scope of competitive relations in politics. In this regard, political competition has not found a comprehensive and systematic approach to ensuring and protecting. The author concludes that the direct use of the economic approach to the regulation of competition in politics is difficult, since it is associated with the methodological and legal problems of such regulation, which requires the identification of additional legal means of protecting political competition. The author concludes that the direct use of the economic approach to the regulation of competition in politics is difficult since it is associated with the methodological and legal issues of such regulation, which requires the identification of additional legal measures for protection and ensuring of the political competition. Analysis of the constitutional provisions of several countries show that one of the means for maintaining a balance in the political arena can be introduction of constitutional guarantees for certain political actors which are participates in the political competition.