THE EVOLUTION OF PRESIDENTIAL SYSTEM IN RUSSIAN FEDERATION: FROM SEMI-PRESIDENTIALISM TO SUPER PRESIDENTIALISM

Today, the presidential system in Russian Federation, by gradually evolving, has been taking another turn. The topic of article is the evolution of Russian semi-presidential system. The article consists of three parts. First of all, different governmental systems (parliamentary system, presidential and semi-presidential system) were examined in order to comprehend semi-presidential system properly. In the second part, semi-presidential system formed with the Russian Federation’s Constitution of 1993 was explained diffusively. And in the last part, the article was finalized by analyzing structural process which takes Russian Federation to super presidentialism and in this context by shedding light on legislations series. The contribution of this study to the literature is to diversify the examples about political systems on the basis of the evolution of the Russian political system and to reveal the unique structure of this political system by taking into account the discussions within Russian Federation.