History of contemporary political science as the history of searching its identity

Modern political science is still a place of heated debate over the basic elements of its theoretical, methodological and political-practical foundations, which were, as the author claims and justifies, the focus of all previous generations of political scientists, which gives him the opportunity to interpret the history of modern political science as the history of the search for its identity. The very evolution of interpretations of subjects and method of political science, its goals and social responsibility, presented in this article, can be interpreted as a search for the identity.