Strategic Constitutionalism and Constitutional Changes: the State and Citizens in Constitutional Forecasting and Public Legal Communication

Abstract

The paper highlights foundations and development of the doctrine of strategic and dialogical constitutionalism in the context of the crisis of the modern world order and constitutional and legal thinking. Strategic constitutionalism and the strategy of constitutional changes are considered as the most important development paradigm that ensures the progress and diversification of models of modern constitutionalism. The paper explains the factors of conceptualization of constitutional changes, dwells on the state as a constitutional strategy and a strategy for diversifying constitutionalism in the world, the dilemmas of legal constitutionalism and forecasting constitutional changes from the standpoint of academic and expert opinion, academic discussions concerning the purpose and role of dialogical constitutionalism and citizens’ participation in constitutional changes, some strategies for constitutional changes in Russia and Europe, prospects for improvement of institutions of popular participation, the institute of professional and expert opinion in the Russian constitutional doctrine and legislation. The paper employs deliberative and epistemological approaches, methods of formal-legal, concretehistorical, comparative constitutional-legal and complex analysis.