Keyword: «form of government»

The article describes the characteristic of regime, as the element of the government adduces the compara-tive analysis of the government; adduces the comparative analysis of totalitarian and autorotation regimes. The authors pay attention to essential characteristics of some types of political regime.

This article explores in detail the form of government of the Republic of South Ossetia. The author attributes South Ossetia to the category of "disputed states". By analyzing the provisions of the Constitution, it is concluded that the form of government of this state is atypical. In addition, the form of government of South Ossetia is compared with the form of government of the "patron" of this state – the Russian Federation. A conclusion is made about the similarity of the forms of government of the two states.

In this article, the main ideas on the classification of forms of state government are analyzed. From the era of ancient Greece, the legal teachings of Plato and Aristotle are given. The legal thought of the XVI-XIX centuries. On the classification of the form of government is represented by the works of J. Bodin, S.L. Montesquieu and T. Payne. In addition, the most interesting concepts of differentiation of the forms of government of Russian researchers, such as I.A. Ilyin, S.V. Pushkarev, A.I. Cherkasov, D.A. Avdeev. The conclusion of the article concludes that it is necessary to abandon the binary approach in dividing the forms of state government and the need for further study of monocracies and polycratia.

The article is devoted to the analysis of the formation of the Republican form of government in Russia, the peculiarities of the position of the President in the system of government of the Russian Federation.