The textbook has been prepared in accordance with the Federal State Educational Standard. The main purpose of the manual is to help students, graduate students, and everyone interested in political issues to understand the complex phenomena of the political life of modern society, to promote the development of their ability to interpret political events, to conduct a comparative analysis of Western and domestic experience.The textbook analyzes achievements modern political science, including those based on philosophy, anthropology, the history of political thought, the experience of federal and regional politics in Russia.For students of humanitarian and socio-economic areas of training, graduate students, university teachers, as well as all those interested in issues modern society, state, power and other political problems.