5. The control questions (feedback):

1. Define the authority.

2. Name the basic concepts of authority, stop in more detail on each of them.

3. Reveal definition of political authority.

4. Name the basic attributes of political authority.

5. What are the structures and functions of political authority?

6. What is the legitimacy of authority in wide and narrow sense?

7. What types of legitimacy do you know?

6. An illustrative and distributing material: multimedia display of lecture.

1. Theme №5: Political system of a society.

2. The aim. Acquaintance with essence and concepts of political system of a society, and also with structure and functions, typology, classifications of political system. The problem of reforming of political system in RK. The basic concepts of political regimes, the role of totalitarianism and democracy in political system.

3. The Plan and theses of lecture:

1. Essence and concepts of political system of a society.

2. Structure and functions of political system.

3. Typology and criteria of political system classification.

4. Institutes of political system. The problems of reforming of political system in RК.

1. Concept «the political system of a society» includes the whole complex of the interconnected and cooperating political organizations and establishments, which provide authority and management in this society.

2. Acting the structurally functional approach position, American scientist Almond suggests to analyze entering and proceeding factors, looking to the functions, incorporated in the system. By this definition, the political system is the system of interaction which are carrying out functions of integration and adaptation (as inside, so outside of a society) by means of application legitimate compulsion.

The basic functions of political system, as a rule, are reduced to problems of protection, ordering and development of the developed public relations in interests of the certain groups. Representing a basic position, the political system is the base of maintenance of authority existing in this or that country.

1. There are various approaches to typology of political system of a society in a political science.

In the modern political literature the typology of political system of a society is written as:

- Traditional and modern (modernized);

- Liberal democracy and considerably-authoritative;

- Anglo-American and continental-European;

- preindustrial and partially industrial, etc.

Doing the classification of political system it is necessary to specify criteria of their differentiation. «A political regime » is all variety ways of realization by political system of the regulating functions in a society. It can be democratic, authoritative, and totalitarian.

1. The Political relation, organized on the basis of norm, refers to as a political institute.

The state is the supreme form of the political organization around of which other institutes of political system are grouped.

The institutional system includes also political parties and the political organizations. In the totality they are an intermediate section between a civil society and the state. Their purposes, problem, interests, etc. are forming in a civil society, but realizing in political sphere, by means of political mechanisms, through the state institutes.

The activity of political institutes and interaction between them are carried out on the basis of, the certain principles and the norms making in aggregate standard-legal system.

Political system of RK, its components are reflected in operating Constitution of RК, where especially emphasized (p.2 сl.1), that basic principles of Republic activity are: the public consent and political stability, economic development for the blessing of all people, the Kazakhstan patriotism, the decision of the most important questions of the state life using democratic methods, including voting on a republican referendum or in Parliament.