V knige rassmatrivaetsya protsess formirovaniya v Rossii mnogopartiynosti s Perestroyki do nachala vtorogo desyatiletiya XXI veka. V rabote pokazany osnovnye teoreticheskie i metodologicheskie podkhody k issledovaniyu prirody politicheskikh partiy, predlozheny sovremennye klassifikatsii partiy i partiynykh sistem, analiziruyutsya teorii, ob"yasnyayushchie vzaimosvyaz' mezhdu obrazovaniem partiy i stanovleniem demokraticheskogo rezhima, kharakterizuetsya protsess partiynoy institutsionalizatsii. V knige raskryvaetsya spetsifika formirovaniya rossiyskoy mnogopartiynosti, pokazan protsess institutsionalizatsii partiy v Rossii. Pri etom vnimanie aktsentiruetsya na prinyatii i izmenenii zakonodatel'nykh aktov i pravovykh norm, reglamentiruyushchikh deyatel'nost' politicheskikh partiy. Takzhe opredelyayutsya usloviya funktsionirovaniya sovremennykh neparlamentskikh partiy v Rossii, predlozheny rekomendatsii, sodeystvuyushchie prokhozhdeniyu vnedumskikh partiy v zakonodatel'nye organy vlasti. Kniga prednaznachaetsya dlya studentov, aspirantov, prepodavateley politicheskikh nauk, politologov.