Constitutional Communication and Mobilizational Constitutionalism: Theoretical, Methodological and Public Legal Aspects
https://doi.org/10.25205/2542-0410-2023-19-2-5-21
Abstract
The article discusses the public law nature, the role and significance of constitutional communication in the legal, political and information space, the epistemological, axiological and communicative foundations of mobilization constitutionalism, the formation of professional, expert and scientific foundations of constitutional forecasting and constitutional reform as public law phenomena. The author critically evaluates international scientific discussions and controversial aspects of constitutional communication in the public law space, reveals the latest examples from the practical experiences of constitutional reforms and constitutional changes in modern states. The article uses deliberative and epistemological approaches, methods of dialectical materialism, critical research in the field of law, formal-legal, concrete-historical, comparative constitutional-legal and complex analysis. As conclusions, the study reveals the specifics of the international trend of expanding the forms of citizens’ participation in constitutional changes, the distinctive features of the Russian model of mobilization constitutionalism.
Keywords
mobilization constitutionalism,
constitutional communication,
constitutional mobilization,
constitutional reform,
information society,
constitutional modernization,
algorithmic society,
digital constitutionalism,
deliberative democracy,
imperative democracy
Supporting agencies: The reported study was funded by Russian Science Foundation according to the research project No. 23-28-00627, https://rscf.ru/en/project/23-28-00627/ (“Communicative constitutionalism and constitutional mobilization: the problem of deliberative participation in the public and information space and the transformation of the public power system (concepts, norms and institutional mechanisms)”).
About the Author
I. A. Kravets
Novosibirsk State University
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Igor’ A. Kravets, Head of the Chair of Theory and History of State and Law and Constitutional Law, Acting Head of the Department of Constitutional and Municipal Law
Web of Science ResearcherID N-9219-2015
Scopus Author ID 57224000209
Novosibirsk
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