The article describes some approaches to definition of the category «regional political regime», studied possible indicators of formal analysis and typology of regional regimes, the most relevant holistic and consistent model of such analysis, assessed monocentricity regional mode of the Saratov region.
In paper studies explanatory potential of the concept of «regional political regime» in the context of discussion about the nature of post-Soviet Russian transformation. The author argues that the term «political regime» is specifying and clarifying the key characteristics of evolution of political relations in uncertain. In article is getting over two main mistakes on the term «regional political regime».
