Planning and forecasting in lawmaking activity of Russia
The article discusses the role of planning and forecasting in law-making activity of Russia. The author notes that the planning of law-making activity contributes significantly to overcoming a number of flaws in the current practice of legislation, such as instability of legal regulation, excessive haste in the preparation and adoption of laws, inconsistency of some conceptual provisions of interrelated laws, excessive dependence of the choice of the theme of the law from the current moment. These facts often leads to contradictions and gaps in legal regulation, reduces the quality of legislation. The value of legal forecasting is that it can be used to solve such important tasks as obtaining scientific prognostic information on trends in the development of laws based on the analysis of empirical data; identification of social needs and the range of social relations that should be regulated by law in the future; determination of the most promising forms and methods of legal regulation of public relations; the priority of the preparation of legislative and other regulatory legal acts. Forecasting the development of legislation is aimed at identifying the existing patterns of this process, identifying the tendencies of their changes in the future, which is the scientific basis for planning legislation for the long term.