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- Title
Soviet Legal Policy Making.
- Authors
Sharlet, Robert
- Abstract
This article focuses on legal policy making in Soviet Union, specifically, the kinds of policies made by the Communist Party that bear on the social regulation process in Soviet society. There are several pioneering studies of legal policy making in certain branches of Soviet law, yet there is a need to examine closely the broader legal policy-making context within which the narrower codification issues have been and are being resolved. Metalegal policy has a significant impact on the social regulation process, although it is not intended to apply exclusively to that process. A metalegal policy may be either a general political policy with system-wide application within which the social regulation process is subsumed or a policy more limited in scope that is primarily directed toward another systemic process but has a "spillover" effect on the social regulation process or one of its component parts. The domestic sources of metalegal policy include individually or in combination, leadership conflict or change, ideological reinterpretation or emendation, major reorganization or reconstruction of another systemic process tightly interrelated to the social regulation process.
- Subjects
SOVIET Union; LAW; POLICY sciences; COMMUNIST parties; COMMUNISM &; social sciences; IDEOLOGY
- Publication
Sociological Inquiry, 1977, Vol 47, Issue 3/4, p209
- ISSN
0038-0245
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1475-682X.1977.tb00799.x