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Issue 6

82-87

The paper interpreted the problem of optimal governance model of state-organized society. On the author’s opinion, relevant institutional environment and mature civil society are necessary for the governance on liberal-democratic principles. Russia and Kazakhstan have to find a balance between the rooted etatist model of relations between society and the state and liberal principles enshrined in the constitutions of both countries, to synthesize the idea of a strong state with the idea of constitutionalism. The governing of social processes should be based on etatism and to include selective and adaptive elements of the liberal strategy into illiberal social reality. The author introduces in scientific discourse the concept of "liberal etatism” as the prospect of "interpenetration, mutual support” liberal ideas and etatist empirical tool for its realization. Etatism in liberal modification becomes an instrument of social modernization, creating conditions for a gradual build-up of liberal potential.

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