Manoylo A.V. On the issue of models and mechanisms of political decision-making in the Russian Federation

Abstract: This article reveals the evolutionary process of forming patterns of development and political decision-making in the Russian Federation on the national government level. The author notes that during Russia's recent history (from the time of formation of the Russian Federation in 1991) the country has sequentially changed three models of development and execution of decisions: polycentric, vertically centralized, and mixed (currently in force). The methodological basis of the study is a systematic, structural and functional, comparative political approach, methods of analysis, synthesis, induction, deduction, observation. Each of the above patterns of development and political decision-making (polycentric, vertically centralized and combined) corresponds to the socio-political formation of the Russian state at certain stages of its development, and gave way to the next model under the influence of radical changes in the political life of Russian society, which brought substantial changes in the political system and the political regime in Russia. Together, all three models are stages of the same evolutionary process, extrapolation of which allows forecasting the changes to the Russian Federation’s combined model of development and political decision-making in the future.

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