Attempts to overcome the deficit by the imperative method of legal regulation in the conditions of perestroika (on the example of Ivano-Frankovsk region)

Abstract

The purpose of the article is to show the effectiveness of the imperative method of legal regulation of the economy on the example of the Ukrainian SSR. Method. The research methodology is based on the application of a systematic approach, which allowed to consider economic and legal phenomena in their relationship. The following methods of scientific cognition were used in the research: the dialectical method, which made it possible to study the relationship between state and legal phenomena and economic processes; study of the legal status of participants in economic relations of the USSR during the perestroika required the use of a historical method, which made it possible to trace the evolution of the legislation of the USSR on the regulation of economic processes. Using the dogmatic method, the legislation of the studied period is analyzed. The hermeneutic method was used in the interpretation of certain economic concepts from the standpoint of law. Results. In the course of the research the principles of the imperative method of legal regulation for overcoming the deficit are analyzed, namely: laws, orders, directives, prescriptions, instructions. Scientific novelty. On the basis of the analysis of legislative acts of the Ukrainian SSR the problems of economic development of the state are revealed, their reasons and ways of overcoming are analyzed. It was found that the key role was given to administrative methods of economic regulation with an emphasis on the imperative method of legal regulation. The inefficiency of this method is shown, which was expressed in numerous offenses and the development of the "shadow economy". Practical significance. Conclusions and theoretical generalizations can be valuable to avoid negative trends in the economic (deficit, speculation, shadow economy) and legal spheres (absolutization of one method of legal regulation) at the present stage of development of the Ukrainian state.