ON NOTION OF POLITICAL FORM

What is political form? What is it as an analytical category and as a political thing that it represents? After raising this question and realizing that there is no explicit and operational definition of political form in the scientific literature, S. Kaspe offers his own definition: "the integrated composition of mutually complementary spatial metaphors of authority that under certain conditions of time and place for a certain polity (or ensemble of polities) plays the role that is simultaneously descriptive, ascriptive and prescriptive, constitutes that very form of the polity (or ensemble of polities)". Such view allows him to make several nontrivial observations regarding the modern state of the Western political form and its prospects.