Dualistic Monarchy: Problems of Identification

Abstract

The purpose of this study is critical understanding the basic, well-established classification of forms of government used in the theory of the state, in terms of identifying the dualistic monarchy. In the scientific and educational literature, there is no unity and certainty in describing the monarchy of the chosen type: some scientists tend to believe that this is a monarchy conditionally and slightly limited, while others believe that this is the format of a modern monarchy with a strong but limited power of the head of a state by Parliament. Against the background of such discrepancies, the term continues to be actively used. The scientific article calls for the development of a unified approach to understanding the dualistic monarchy as a form of government, where there is a dualism of legislative and executive power: on the one hand, the inherited head of a state concentrates executive power in his hands, on the other hand, there is a legislative body formed by the population, capable to exercise its power independently of the monarch. As an independent type, the author proposes to distinguish a quasi-absolute monarchy, where the head of a state has full executive power and a strong influence on the legislative power in terms of its formation and influence through an absolute veto. A quasi-absolute monarchy is not identical with an absolute monarchy: this study was carried out by the author earlier, and there are relevant references in this work.