The legislative process in the modern world is based on observing the stages of the procedure common to all legal systems — from the introduction of a bill to its promulgation. At the same time, modern lawmaking is increasingly imbued with cultural, and generally speaking, civilizational, factors reflecting the cultural identity of a particular state. The article analyzes two aspects of the culture of lawmaking: the culture of the procedure itself and culture as an intellectual, ideological component of the rulemaking process. A comparative research method was used by selecting three models of legislative activity: European, Latin American and Islamic. The result of the influence of culture on legislative activity is the formation of exclusion from the unified traditions of lawmaking. It is the culture, unique to each society, that contributes to the emergence of specific features in lawmaking acts that reflect the understanding of justice, morality, and duty in various civilizations. The impact of culture on legislative activity as a procedure for creating a law, subject to its own rules and regulations, is indirect. For this reason, it is very difficult to accurately determine the mechanism of such an impact, not to mention identifying any patterns. Nevertheless, although the procedure for putting forward a legislative initiative, approving it, passing a law and its entry into force is approximately the same in many countries, it is the cultural factor that makes adjustments to this procedure. A brief comparative analysis of the cultural aspect of modern lawmaking allows us to conclude that there is a dual cultural dimension to this process: on the one hand, it is the legal culture of conducting a bill through a series of procedures and examinations, subject to its own rules, and on the other, it takes into account the cultural characteristics of a particular state. In this regard, we can talk about a wide variety of options. Knowledge of these features will enrich the experience of legislative activity in Russia.
Pavel Stepanov (Wed,) studied this question.