State power as a legal category: the concept, nature, and characteristics

Valentin Ya. Liubashits; Tatiana P. Cherkasova; Sergey S. Shestopal; Natalia V. Fadeeva; E. P. Nevelskaya-Gordeeva

Valentin Ya. Liubashits Department of Theory and History of State and Law Faculty of Law, Southern Federal University
Tatiana P. Cherkasova Department of Economic Theory and Entrepreneurship, Russian Academy of National Economy and Public Administration under the President of the Russian Federation, South-Russian Institute of Management
Sergey S. Shestopal Vladivostok State University of Economics and Service, Vladivostok, Russia
Natalia V. Fadeeva Department of Mass Communications and Applied Linguistics, Rostov State Railway University
E. P. Nevelskaya-Gordeeva Department Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University. Ukraine

Keywords: State, evolution of the state, statehood, political society, state authority, public power, sovereignty, democracy, autocracy, totalitarianism.

Abstract

This article analyzes the fundamental issues of the evolution of approaches to the legal category of state power. The authors consider the phenomenon of power as one of the most important types of social interaction. The authors show that during this evolution, along with the preservation of universal (essential) characteristics due to the nature and social purpose of the state, there is a modification of those properties and characteristics of state power that have a specific historical character and depend on many factors affecting ways of implementing state power. The article reveals the main types of state power and methods of its implementation. According to the authors, the power is not the result of only violence, the suppression of one person by another, but comes from the very nature of man. The authors reveal the category of “state power” by examining its content, characteristics, elements, subjects, and objects. They examine the ways of expressing political power as a type of domination of the corresponding social group depending on a particular historical type of society.

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Author Biographies

Valentin Ya. Liubashits, Department of Theory and History of State and Law Faculty of Law, Southern Federal University

Dr. habil. in Law science, Professor, Department of Theory and History of State and Law Faculty of Law, Southern Federal University

Tatiana P. Cherkasova, Department of Economic Theory and Entrepreneurship, Russian Academy of National Economy and Public Administration under the President of the Russian Federation, South-Russian Institute of Management

Dean of the Faculty of Political Science, Professor of the Department of Economic Theory and Entrepreneurship, Russian Academy of National Economy and Public Administration under the President of the Russian Federation, South-Russian Institute of Management, Ph.D. Economics, Associate Professor

Sergey S. Shestopal, Vladivostok State University of Economics and Service, Vladivostok, Russia

Ph.D. in Legal Sciences, Associate Professor of Law Department, Vladivostok State University of Economics and Service, Vladivostok, Russia

Natalia V. Fadeeva, Department of Mass Communications and Applied Linguistics, Rostov State Railway University

Candidate of Economic Sciences, Assistant Professor of Department of Mass Communications and Applied Linguistics, Rostov State Railway University

E. P. Nevelskaya-Gordeeva, Department Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University. Ukraine

Ph.D. in philosophy sciences, Аssociate Professor of Philosophy Department Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University. Ukraine

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