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Taking into account the latest achievements of political and other fields of scientific knowledge, the textbook fully reveals the content of the science of political systems of the world and their main institutions: state authorities, local governments, political parties, theories of the origin of the state and its features and functions, it analyses the forms of the state and classifies party and electoral systems. The textbook is designed according to the standards of the credit-module system of education in accordance with the requirements of the Bologna Process. It contains texts of lectures, questions for seminars and methodological recommendations for their preparation, topics of essays for each topic and methodological recommendations for their writing, questions for module control (exam) and self-control, a list of recommended reading. UDC 328(075.8) BBC 66.3(0)y73