THE INFLUENCE OF POLITICAL CULTURE ON THE LEGITIMACY OF LEGISLATIVE POWER IN MODERN RUSSIA

• Main Author: S. V. Ivlev
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Kemerovo State University 2015-06-01
• Series: Вестник Кемеровского государственного университета
• Subjects: political culture; legitimacy; legislative power; statism; split in society
• Online Access: https://vestnik.kemsu.ru/jour/article/view/1572

Political culture is the connecting link between the interests, needs, norms, and social status of the subjects of the political process and their political behaviour. As the legitimacy mediates dominance and submission, political culture mediates the consciousness and behaviour of the subject of policy. Political culture contains both the elements of positive assessment of the existing political system and the elements of negative evaluation. The number of positive values determines the degree of legitimacy of a political system. The paper aims to analyze the influence of political culture on the process of legitimating the legislative power in modern Russia. This aspect is of theoretical and practical significance for the functioning of the political system of modern Russia.