Annotation

The article is devoted to the analysis of value and ideological transformations affecting the constitutional and legal model of direct democracy in modern Russia. The author explores the departure from liberal individualistic principles in favor of the concept of a moral state based on spiritual unity, the priority of public interests and cultural and historical continuity. Special attention is paid to rethinking the role of local self-government, which is considered not as an element of the mechanics of power, but as a form of self-organization of local communities. The paper substantiates the thesis about the insufficiency and crisis of traditional direct forms of expression of will (elections, referendums) and raises the question of the need to recognize alternative, corporate and conciliar practices of identifying the will of the people as full-fledged institutions of democracy. The author concludes that constitutional reform and doctrinal re-traditionalization consolidate a consolidated understanding of national unity, calling into question the monopoly of the party system on political representation.