The article is devoted to the analysis of the theory and legal regulation of imperative mandate. The author reveals the essence of the imperative mandate and makes an attempt to explain the cause for rejecting this model of mandate in many democratic countries at the highest constitutional level. The author notes that instruction of electors determines the legal nature of the imperative mandate and the free mandate. The article analyzes the traditional understanding of the imperative mandate and free mandate. It criticizes the practice of ‘blaming’ the imperative mandate for the political party and fraction’s influence over Deputies. Report and recall in the imperative mandate structure are the guarantees of the implementation of the instruction of electors. The relations between a Deputy and the political party or fraction should be outside of the imperative mandate structure, because they are phenomena of a different nature. On the basis of theory and practice, the author concludes that the instruction of electors is acceptable in modern democracy. The instruction of electors has a great potential as an institute of direct democracy and as an effective way for accumulating electors’ needs and interests.
electors, instruction of electors, imperative mandate, free mandate, the Deputy, the mandate of the Deputy, democracy.
1. Ferejohn J., Rakove J., Riley J. Constitutional Culture and Democratic Rule. Cambridge, 2001.
2. Koja F. Das Verfassungsrecht der österreichischen Bundeslander. Wien; N. Y., 1967.
3. Van der Hulst M. The parliamentary mandate. A global comparative study. Geneva, 2000.
4. Avak´yan S. A. Konstitutsionnoe pravo Rossii: uchebnyy kurs: v 2 t. 5-e izd. T. 1. M., 2014.
5. Alimov E. V. Nekotorye problemy konstitutsionno-pravovogo regulirovaniya mandata deputata. Konstitutsionnoe i munitsipal´noe pravo. 2015. № 4.
6. Bogomolov M. T. Imperativnyy mandat v sovetskom gosudarstve: dis.... kand. yurid. nauk. Saratov, 1971.
7. Kabyshev V. T. Pryamoe narodovlastie v sovetskom gosudarstve. Saratov, 1974.
8. Kotok V. F. Nakazy izbirateley v sotsialisticheskom gosudarstve (imperativnyy mandat). M., 1967.
9. Moshak A. V. Nakazy izbirateley i status deputata. Sovetskoe gosudarstvo i pravo. 1971. № 2.
10. Prelo M. Konstitutsionnoe pravo Frantsii. M., 1957.
11. Ustinov V. M. Uchenie o narodnom predstavitel´stve: v 2 t. T. 1. M., 1912.
