Content (Syllabus outline):

• A modern phase of the development of comparative political science: methodological problems.
• Modern study of political regimes.
• Contemporary political and cultural studies.
• The political role of the mass media.
• New issues of political participation and electoral process.
• Contemporary lobbyism.
• Contemporary party’s and party systems.
• Bodies of state authority and local self-government bodies.
• Bureaucracy as a political institution.
• The political role of the armed forces in the modern world.
• Church and politics.
• Contemporary state policy: shaping and realization.
• Contemporary issues of political development, modernization and democratization.
• The role and importance of comparative analysis in domestic political practice.