These materials will allow the reader to get an idea of some of the subject spheres within the proceedings of the Congress in Quebec. V.V.Smirnov deals with some problems related to corporatism, in particular to the aspect of state government. O.V.Gaman-Golutvina devotes her paper to the transformation of the role of elites and of the role of the ethics of state service. S.P.Peregudov discusses the prospects of the development of the corporate sector, as well as its relations with social structures. Yu.V.Irkhin makes a review of the Congress participants’ reports where problems of post-modernism in politics are touched upon.