Abstract

The relevance of this study lies in the fact that in the conditions of actualization and the need to modernize the problems of almost all spheres of socio-cultural development phenomena, the countries of the catch-up type, to which the Republic of Kazakhstan belongs, in which all types of initiatives come from the power elites, need to define the type of their statehood. As today in Kazakhstan we have the formation of factors of another phase of socio-cultural development. In accordance with this conclusion it is necessary to define the type of statehood at this stage of socio-cultural development, for which we should provide a legal basis for the modernization processes - the Basic Law of the country. For this purpose, at the suggestion of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan K.-J.K. Tokayev a working commission on making amendments to the current Constitution of the Republic of Kazakhstan was created.
Based on the presence of factors of another phase of sociocultural development, it is necessary to transfer from the super-presidential republic to the presidential-parliamentary republic with some predominance in favor of the supreme executive power to avoid centrifugal tendencies, tendencies of de-sovereignization of state formations, which take place in the modern geopolitical space. Constitutional changes should primarily concern three main blocks: the principle of separation of powers; the system of checks and balances; elections.
The purpose and novelty of this study is to substantiate the need to change the type of statehood (form of government and governance) in the conditions of ineffective operation of such democratic principles as: the principle of feedback, the principle of separation of the three main branches of power, the principle of selectivity and accountability.