Institutional factors of political science’s condition in Russia: general characteristics and problems

Abstract

In the article, the institutional context is analyzed, within which Russian political science exists at the contemporary stage of its development. Science in general and political science in particular are regarded as a social institution and as a cultural phenomenon, whose condition is linked inextricably with the processes unfolding within society and within state. A number of institutional factors influencing practices of scientific enterprise have been identified - formal norms and informal rules according to which science functions; professional standards; the character of relationship between science and state, as well as between science and society; structures of scientific community’s self-organization; relations with international science. The specifics of these factors’ impact in the case of Russian political science is demonstrated.