Historical and Legal Aspects of Implementation of Legal Incentives as the Major Regulator of Social Relations

Abstract

The article reflects the main historical and legal aspects of the development of legal incentives, as a regulator of social relations. The author notes that social management is carried out by means of incentives and constraints expressed in the legal and moral norms. The current stage of development of society characterized by the need for States to actively socially useful behavior of participants in public relations in all spheres of life. Ideas legal incentives in the Russian theory of law related to the peculiarities of national awareness and entrenched legal and legal traditions, which are based both on the domestic and the global experience of the application of legal incentives. Analyzing the historical experience, the author notes that each stage of the development of society and the state has its own system of legal incentives, due to material and socio-cultural conditions of life and concludes that the decisive criterion in this respect is the attitude of the state to the individual, recognition of its individuality, independence of its rights. In principle, a change of power as a rule change and the system stimulants, which used this power in the arsenal of legal interventions. Analyzing the political and legal views of ancient philosophers, European thinkers XVIII - XX centuries, the author concludes that the institution of legal stimulation has evolved from simple forms to more complex ones. Studying the experience of implementation of the legal incentives accumulated throughout different periods of development of the statehood is one of the major stages in studying of the essence and accurate understanding of this many-sided phenomenon.