politics

Tracking activity in modern Russia must comply with market realities. Developments in the domestic society and the economy changes affect the activities of law enforcement bodies and special services.

The paper deals with questions of the formation of political and legal representations about power, depending on what politico-legal school the representative of a considered doctrine belongs to. The work tries to estimate the degree of development of the politico-legal representations about power in the XVIII–XX centuries.

The article focuses on the concept of power in various doctrines of European countries and its functioning within the doctrines before the concept of institution of state based on the rule of law emerged.