Systematic Interpretation of the Factors of Federal Sustainability and Socio-Political Security of a Constituent State of a Federation

Abstract

Abstract:The article deals with a constituent state of a federation, both a spatial unit of medium size, being an element of the federal system and as a local system having its own institutional, regulatory, cultural, ideological and communicative characteristics. In this article, we attempt to equate to some extent the federal sustainability and socio-political security of a constituent state of a federation. We propose to consider the federal sustainability not only as a federal system's property, but also as a set of intrinsic characteristics of the political and territorial space of a constituent state, contributing to the implementation of the main objectives of federalism and the federal structure-to promote the vital interests of its population. In accordance with the methodology of the system approach and role-based method of description of the processes occurring in the political system, used by Almond and Powell, we break up the factors of federal sustainability and socio-political security of a constituent state of a federation into five groups: Institutional, regulatory, communicative, ideological and cultural.

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“…through implementation of vital interests of its population. In this case, sustainability implies that the constituent unit of the federation as a mesosystem performs its main functions both in relation to the federal center and in relation to its population (Matafonova, 2016). Meanwhile, for a long period in the Trans-Baikal Territory, one could observe a steady trend of migration outflow, which can be considered as an indicator showing the unsustainability of the regional political system.…”