The authors analysed the essence of the institutional approach in scientific researches and the peculiarities of its types using in the analysis of political phenomena and processes. Characterised types of the institutional approach are used to analyse democracy with the distinction of institutional and organisational, institutional and legal and institutional and cultural dimensions.
The article is devoted to study the constitutional experience of foreign states (Republics of the former USSR, which became independent states) in resolving the issue of dual citizenship. The legislation of Ukraine on citizenship and its changes during the years of independence is analyzed. The draft law “About making changes to the Law of Ukraine ”About citizenship of Ukraine“ about the bases and order of acquisition and termination of citizenship of Ukraine”, registered in the Parliament of Ukraine on December 2, 2021, under No. 6368, on the subject of the introduction of dual citizenship in Ukraine, introduced by the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky to the Supreme Rada of Ukraine is analyzed. The reasons and possible negative consequences of the introduction of dual citizenship in Ukraine are clarified. The conclusion about the inexpediency of the introduction of dual citizenship in Ukraine is made.
The purpose of the study is to reveal the strengths and weaknesses of the constitutional and legal institute of the referendum as a means of direct democracy. The political and legal method of research was used, which consists in the analysis of political and legal norms and political factors, that influences their formation and practical use. The main results and conclusions of the study. The institute of referendum as a system of constitutional and legal norms is analyzed from the point of view of both its democracy and the potential possibilities of its use as a means of political manipulation. The weaknesses of the institute of referendum are highlighted, examples of its use in Ukraine as a way to achieve opportunistic political goals are analyzed. Let us pay attention to the significant narrowing by the new Law of Ukraine «On an all-Ukrainian Referendum» of the rights and possibilities of the citizens of Ukraine to hold a referendum. It is concluded that in independent Ukraine the constitutional and legal institute of the referendum is used not so much for expression of the will of the Ukrainian people, also to directly solve the most important issues of state and public life, but as a way of political manipulation, achieving the political goals desired by the authorities.
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