DEMOCRACY AND ELECTIONS: SCIENTIFIC AND PRACTICAL REFLECTIONS

The article makes an attempt to analyze the effectiveness of democratic procedures for the formation of power in modern Russia. Based on a comparison of domestic and foreign elections, the positive and negative aspects of various stages of the electoral process are examined. A brief description of the pre-revolutionary election model is given. It is emphasized that the elections of the pre-revolutionary convocations of the State Duma were held on the basis of a complex electoral system and with certain qualifications, and did not fully meet the modern requirements of popular, direct elections. At the same time, elections based on a proportional electoral system in modern conditions require a more demanding attitude towards political parties, which often turn into corporate associations with an unchanged core of governing party bodies. All these corporate parties grossly violate internal party democracy and negatively affect the succession of power in many countries of the world.