ანოტაცია: This book is a course of lectures delivered by Zurab Zhvania in 2002-2003 to
master program students of the schools of Public Administration and Journalism at the Georgian Institute of Public Affairs.It must be noted at the outset that the author’s intention was to create a work that
would consolidate his political experience and general, theoretical approaches to
democracy and politics, as well as the analysis of problems facing contemporary
Georgia.