No 2 (2008)

The article features the periodization of transitology, identifying three phases of methodology and interpretation schemes evolution and displaying its inner dynamics. The author outlines the ways to cope with problems transitology faces and sketches the next phase of its development - the fourth one.

We make an attempt in the article to make an integral consideration of business as a semi functional activity in interaction with society, the general methodological approaches are suggested to analyze it as a socio-political phenomenon. Institutional trajectories of the business origin in the modern Russian are considered through the world of political, a logic of the modern model generation of interaction between business and power.

One of the main problems of federative relations, as in the recent years, remains the problem of power-sharing and the division of fields of responsibility between the Russian Federation and its constituents concerning the objects of its joint authority. Power-sharing and the division of fields of responsibility between the Russian Federation and its constituents - is one of the main conditions of strengthening federative relations. Such power-sharing should not be considered as the end in itself, it is necessary to decide the main questions in the formed system of federative relations. The question of power-sharing and the division of fields of responsibility always remains practically significant, and the normal functioning of state depends on the sound decision of this question.

The processes of formation of multi-system economy that go on in China are of a first-rate importance for the political and economic processes that are underway in the Russian Federation. The comparison of the political mechanisms of management of reforms in Russia and China testify that the carrying out of an effective restructuring of the state property, first of all in the field of large industry, is becoming the central issue of economic reforms.