This textbook reveals all aspects of the theoretical and applied analysis of the actual problems of modern state and municipal management, which is based on the generalization of the world and domestic experience of the functioning of public administration systems. Within the framework of the communicative paradigm of public administration, the system, mechanism, practices, apparatus of public administration of foreign countries, styles of public decision-making and technologies of their implementation in different models of public administration are considered. The novel of the textbook is a comparative analysis of threats, challenges and responses that determine the modern transformations of the administrative sphere and change management technologies in the field of public administration, as well as markers for quantifying the effectiveness of public management systems in the information society. Meets the requirements of the federal state educational standards of higher education of the latest generation. For bachelors of higher educational institutions studying in the areas of training 38.03.04 "State and municipal management", 41.03.04 "Political Science", 38.03.02 "Management".

The article examines the mechanism of constructing political dispositions of modern Russian youth, the main element of which is Internet communications. In the information society, the former institutions of political socialization (school, universities, family) are pushed to the periphery, which forms multidirectional scenarios of political socialization. An empirical analysis of the influence of online consumption on the structural elements of the political culture of young people is carried out within the framework of a sociological study, basic discourses and possible trends in the development of political loyalties of modern Russian youth are revealed.

The information and communication revolution of the late XX — early XXI century not only radically changed the modern world, but also formed a new social reality — a post-industrial society. The current stage of post-industrial development is associated with the formation of the information society, a distinctive feature of which is that in it information, the process of its production and methods of transmission, becomes more important than the thing itself. Information is a decisive factor in the social order, which has changed the ways and technologies of organizing social space and the nature of everyday practices, the life worlds of ordinary people, and the media become the main tool for the production of semantic systems.

If you want to know what role politics plays in society and how it affects you, read this textbook. In it you will find answers to questions that concern everyone. What is politics: science, art or technology of domination in the hands of the elect? Are there laws in politics, is it possible to know them and use them in the interests of society, and not just the ruling class? Why has power always been a bone of contention, what is its attractive power? Does the theory of politics have the right to claim the status of a science about the laws of the functioning of power, if all knowledge about politics is situational, relative and changeable? Why are the conclusions and recommendations of political science relevant to society often ignored by the elite? These and many other questions are answered based on the analysis of the political practices of foreign countries and Russia. The author interprets politics as a mechanism of volitional distribution of public goods, revealing its laws, exposing the hidden logic of the struggle for power, However, politics is presented not only as a mechanism for coordinating heterogeneous interests, but also as a set of beliefs, ideas, meanings that determine technologies and structures of symbolic domination and behavior patterns in the information society. Meets the requirements of the federal state educational standards of higher education of the latest generation. For students of philosophical, political science, law faculties and faculties of world politics and public and municipal administration, as well as for anyone interested in theoretical and applied problems of politics.

This publication is one of the first textbooks on the subject "Theory and practice of Government Relations" and a complete guide to GR, the content of which is based on a comparative analysis of the theories, strategies and technologies of communication of interested groups with state and municipal authorities in different countries. The status and nature of GR as a science and art are revealed, methodological and applied issues of designing strategies and practices for converting functional groups ' requests, including business structures, into a mechanism for making and implementing political decisions are revealed. When using the strategy of comparative analysis, communicative practices of interaction of interested groups and authorities in the United States are considered. in the countries of Western Europe, Japan and China, the advantages and disadvantages of national models of GR are revealed, strategies and technologies of positioning of interest groups in Russia, the mechanism of promotion of corporate requests in the public sphere are shown. Corresponds to the Federal state educational standard of higher education of the last generation. The legislation of different countries on GR-practices is relevant as of July 1, 2018. For students of higher educational institutions studying in the areas of "Advertising and PR", "State and municipal administration", "political Science".