Should Russia copy the "western" model of democracy as we know it? (part I)
This article presents a comparative legal analysis of the processes that have caused or provoked a significant acceleration of crisis trends recently observed in states that traditionally associate themselves with the “Western” model of a democratic political regime. From a critical point of view, the authors investigate what systemic and institutional problems society may eventually encounter in case of ignoring and untimely resolution of such fundamental issues directly related to human rights and freedoms as racial and gender issues, in the context of their ideological and constitutional-legal meaning, and industrial capital affiliated with it to modernize a rather obsolete mechanism for the exercise of public powers, that no longer meet the requirements of the day under the number of important criteria. In the article, the authors formulate an understanding of the reasons why the manifestations of social stagnation and degradation affecting the relevant social areas are observed not only in the individual structural elements functioning, but also in the “superstructure” as it is, embodying the bourgeois-liberal essence of statehood.