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<article xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/" article-type="research-article" dtd-version="1.2" xml:lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">RUDN Journal of Law</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title xml:lang="en">RUDN Journal of Law</journal-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Вестник Российского университета дружбы народов. Серия: Юридические науки</trans-title></trans-title-group></journal-title-group><issn publication-format="print">2313-2337</issn><issn publication-format="electronic">2408-9001</issn><publisher><publisher-name xml:lang="en">Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia named after Patrice Lumumba (RUDN University)</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">17708</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.22363/2313-2337-2017-21-3-528-540</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="en"><subject>Articles</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="ru"><subject>Статьи</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="article-type"><subject>Research Article</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title xml:lang="en">FEDERALISM AS THE PRODUCT OF WESTERN LEGAL CULTURE</article-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>ФЕДЕРАЛИЗМ КАК ПРОДУКТ ЗАПАДНОЙ ПРАВОВОЙ КУЛЬТУРЫ</trans-title></trans-title-group></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name-alternatives><name xml:lang="en"><surname>Platonov</surname><given-names>Vladimir M</given-names></name><name xml:lang="ru"><surname>Платонов</surname><given-names>В М</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="en">Vladimir M. Platonov, Candidate of Legal Sciences, Head of the Department of Political Analysis and Government, Faculty of Humanitarian and Social Sciences, RUDN University.</bio><bio xml:lang="ru">Платонов Владимир Михайлович - кандидат юридических наук, профессор, заведующий кафедрой политического анализа и управления, Факультет гуманитарных и социальных наук, Российский университет дружбы народов.</bio><email>platonov_vm@rudn.university</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"/></contrib></contrib-group><aff-alternatives id="aff1"><aff><institution xml:lang="en">RUDN University</institution></aff><aff><institution xml:lang="ru">Российский университет дружбы народов</institution></aff></aff-alternatives><pub-date date-type="pub" iso-8601-date="2017-12-15" publication-format="electronic"><day>15</day><month>12</month><year>2017</year></pub-date><volume>21</volume><issue>4</issue><issue-title xml:lang="en">VOL 21, NO4 (2017)</issue-title><issue-title xml:lang="ru">ТОМ 21, №4 (2017)</issue-title><fpage>528</fpage><lpage>540</lpage><history><date date-type="received" iso-8601-date="2018-01-24"><day>24</day><month>01</month><year>2018</year></date></history><permissions><copyright-statement xml:lang="en">Copyright ©; 2017, Platonov V.M.</copyright-statement><copyright-statement xml:lang="ru">Copyright ©; 2017, Платонов В.М.</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2017</copyright-year><copyright-holder xml:lang="en">Platonov V.M.</copyright-holder><copyright-holder xml:lang="ru">Платонов В.М.</copyright-holder><ali:free_to_read xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/"/><license><ali:license_ref xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/">http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0</ali:license_ref></license></permissions><self-uri xlink:href="https://journals.rudn.ru/law/article/view/17708">https://journals.rudn.ru/law/article/view/17708</self-uri><abstract xml:lang="en">The Article is devoted to justification of the fact that the federalism has a number of features, which are common with the characteristics of liberal democracy. The author proves that both of these phenomena represent the political forms of the organization of society developed by the Western Euro-pean and North American political and legal cultures. The interrelation between federalism and democ-racy is traced in the western legal and political cultures at the conceptual, structural and functional lev-els, these phenomena are caused by typological specifics of the western societies. That means that the diffusion of the public power, competition of social groups, development of institutes of civil society are internally immanent to western political and legal cultures. The integrating elements of federalism are provided with its consideration in three main aspects - as the structurally functional principle characterizing society and the public power, as the way of the political and territorial organization of the state assuming a combination of elements of centralization and decentralization and as a process, characterizing society in aspect of its democratization. Representatives of the American and European political and legal science of the second half of the 20 century came to a conclusion that formation of the democratic state and realization of the princi-ples of federalism are impossible in societies where ideological opposition, lack of uniform political and legal culture, differentiation of society on religious, ethnic, social and to other principles takes place. In their aspiration to solve a problem of theoretical justification of a possibility of implementation of the principles of liberal democracy and federalism in any society, in any cultural and historical condi-tions, the ideologists of liberal democracy go for modification of their concepts. As an example the idea of consociation democracy is considered as some kind of «social dimension of federalism». However, despite such attempts, it is necessary to recognize that in the societies where the political power was in-stitutionalized in others, than in Europe and North America, historical conditions, where in a basis of relationship between the individual, societies and the state lie other principles, where liberalism and lib-eral democracy as concepts weren't a product of the society, and have been introduced from the outside, the principles of federalism in their western, liberal and democratic understanding are inapplicable because of lack of objective social, economic, political, ideological and cultural prerequisites to their real-ization.</abstract><trans-abstract xml:lang="ru">Статья посвящена обоснованию того, что федерализм имеет ряд особенностей, общих с признаками и характеристиками демократии. Автор доказывает, что оба этих явления представляют собой политические формы организации общества, выработанные западноевропейской и североамериканской политической и правовой культурами. Взаимосвязь между федерализмом и демократией прослеживается в западной правовой и политической культурах на концептуальном, структурном и функциональном уровнях, эти явления вызваны типологической спецификой западных обществ. То есть диффузия публичной власти, конкуренция социальных групп, развитие институтов гражданско-го общества внутренне имманентно западной политической и правовой культурам. Интегрирующие элементы федерализма обеспечиваются рассмотрением его в трех основных плоскостях - как структурно-функционального принципа, характеризующего общество и публичную власть, как способ политико-территориальной организации государства, предполагающий сочетание элементов централизации и децентрализации, и как процесс, характеризующий общество в аспекте его демократизации. Представители американской и европейской политической и правовой науки второй половины ХХ века приходили к выводу, что формирование демократического государства и реализация принципов федерализма невозможна в обществах, где имеет место идеологическое противостояние, отсутствие однородной политической и правовой культуры, дифференциация общества по религиозному, этническому, социальному и иным принципам. В стремлении решить проблему теоретического обоснования возможности внедрения принципов либеральной демократии и федерализма в любом обществе, в любых культурно-исторических условиях идеологи либеральной демократии идут на видоизменение их концептов. Примером может служить идея консоциативной демократии, которая рассматривается как своего рода «социальное измерение федерализма». Однако, несмотря на такие попытки, следует при-знать, что в тех обществах, где политическая власть институционализировалась в иных, чем в Европе и Северной Америке, исторических условиях, где в основу взаимоотношений индивида, общества и государства легли иные принципы, где либерализм и либеральная демократия как концепции не являлись продуктом самого общества, а были привнесены извне, принципы федерализма в их западном, либерально-демократическом понимании оказываются неприменимы в силу отсутствия объективных социальных, экономических, политических, идеологических и культурных предпосылок к их реализации.</trans-abstract><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><kwd>form of government</kwd><kwd>federalism</kwd><kwd>cultural and historical context</kwd><kwd>culturological ap-proach</kwd><kwd>western legal culture</kwd><kwd>consociation democracy</kwd></kwd-group><kwd-group xml:lang="ru"><kwd>форма государственного устройства</kwd><kwd>федерализм</kwd><kwd>культурно-исторический контекст</kwd><kwd>культурологический подход</kwd><kwd>западная правовая культура</kwd><kwd>консоциатив-ная демократия</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front><body></body><back><ref-list><ref id="B1"><label>1.</label><mixed-citation>Adeney, K. 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