Teleological Statism in State Building: Doctrinal, Constitutional, and Historical Analysis

Abstract

Ensuring state interests as the leading area of the state’s activity is a rather urgent problem of modern Ukraine. For that reason, the purpose of the study is the examination of teleological statism in state-building in its doctrinal, constitutional, and historical dimensions. The methodological basis of the study is synergetic and analytical approaches, general scientific (praxeological, historical, and dialectical) and special (formal-legal, comparative-legal) methods of scientific cognition. The study clarifies that at the conceptual level the doctrinal aspect of teleological statism in state-building appears in the “Age of Revolutions” of the 16^th-18^th centuries in the form of the theory of the regulatory state. Therewith, it is proved that in 20^th century it is manifested in the theories of totalitarian and corporate state. The co-authors substantiate that the embodiment of teleological statism in state-building is mostly fixed at the level of individual laws, which have the character of constitutional. It is proved that Italy of the fascist dictatorship, which considered totalitarianism as a fundamental principle of its statehood, did not actually acquire a statist character. It is also established that Spain during the actual regency of F. Franco Bahamonde and Portugal during the dictatorships of A. Salazar and M. Caetano were openly statist, despite the fact that the world community did not formally recognise them as totalitarian. The study discovers that the ideas of the “corporate state” were most effectively implemented in Italy under Mussolini, Spain during the reign of Franco, Portugal during the dictatorship of A. Salazar and, to some extent, the Third Reich by A. Hitler. The co-authors substantiate that the origins of the ideals of autocracy, which are characteristic of modern Russia, were the situation in the Vladimir-Suzdal principality. As a result of the analysis of historical features of implementation of teleological statism in state-building of Russia, it is confirmed that there are two approaches to it – personalism and statism. It is identified that the embodiment of the personalist approach was the rule of the Moscow Rurik dynasty from Ivan III to Fyodor Ivanovich. Therewith, it is substantiated that the era of statism in Russia lasted from the reign of Peter I to the reign of his niece – Anna Ioannovna. The practical value of this study is that it can be used both in further research and in the teaching of legal disciplines of the political science cycle