Political Science: Textbook.

The textbook is dedicated to the analysis of political science as an independent scientific and educational discipline, its place among other social and humanitarian sciences, the subject and scope of the problems it studies. The main focus is on the essential characteristics and key components of the political world, such as power, state, their systemic and structural features, social and economic foundations, transformations in the age of globalization. Significant attention is given to the system of state governance, issues of bureaucracy, and political elite, the main directions of state policy. The political system and its institutions, political regimes, their territorial-political organization, political culture, political philosophy, ideology, etc., are considered. For university students studying humanities, social, pedagogical, and economic disciplines, and all those interested in political issues in the modern world.