№ 2 - 2012
Pushkaryova G.V.
Social Contract and the Problem of Tacit Consent

The category of “political space” is applied in scientific literature in two main senses: first – as environment or territory of existence of political objects and of political processes being developed, and second – as system of political differences consolidating the political hierarchy in society and the differentiation of political positions. Considered in the article are particularities of conceptualization of political space within the second sense. Nature of political space in this sense is disclosed, methodological principles and problems of spatial formation of politics designed.