Shishkov V.V.

Purpose. The study aims at identifying the characteristic features of institutionalization and functioning of public administration, its mechanism in the empire-state under modernization. Methods. The research is based on the methodology of researching modernization processes, is carried out using the methods of political and retrospective analysis and other methods of social-humanitarian sciences including socio-philosophical (comparative) system. Results. The modernization processes of the administrative apparatus in the empire are researched, the specific features are revealed stipulated by the nature of the center-periphery relations, the policy of the empire-state center, aimed at concentration of political power and resources. A comparative analysis of the of modernization processes of the imperial administration in the empires of the modern era depending on their typological features is carried out. The politological analysis of the political administration differentiation in relation to periphery is made. The problems connected with the combination of territorial and political unitary of the empire-state and various forms of the periphery autonomy, expressed in the formation of the management hierarchy of the peripheries depending on the degree of their political distance from the center of the empire are revealed. Scientific novelty is in researching the impact of modernization on patriarchal and nationalinstitutional imperial systems, the institutionalization of administrative structures of periphery management. The article considers and studies such features of imperial management as: monopoly of the political center for administrative resources, administrative centralization, differentiation of administrative approaches and hierarchization of the political periphery. The conclusion is made about the combination of modernization and pre-modernization management practices in a heterogeneous political space of the empire-state.