Authors
- Burlachenko Yury A. Russian Federation Moscow
Annotation
The author explores the mechanisms of legitimacy construction in authoritarian political regimes, offering a synthetic analysis based on European political philosophy (M. Foucault, K. Schmitt) and the modern Russian political school (V. S. Avdonin, A. F. Filippov, R. Okumbekov). It is considered that the stability of authoritarian regimes is ensured not only by the repressive apparatus, but also by the complex configuration of disciplinary practices, the monopolization of the right to declare exclusion in the legislative system and the construction of common narratives that create the consent of citizens. The analysis of the three-level structure of authoritarian legitimacy (micro, meso, and macro levels) makes it possible to explain both the long-term stability of such regimes and their sudden collapse when one of the pillars disappears. The practical significance of the research lies in the possibility of applying the obtained analytical scheme to modern hybrid political systems.
How to link insert
Burlachenko, Y. A. (2026). MICROPHYSICS OF AUTHORITARIAN LEGITIMACY: FROM FOUCAULT TO MODERN RUSSIAN POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY Bulletin of the Moscow City Pedagogical University. Series "Pedagogy and Psychology", № 3 (59), 108. https://doi.org/10.24412/2078-9238-2026-359-108-120
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