本书力求客观梳理和记录2017年中国政治学理论研究与实践发展的整体状况，在政治学理论研究方面主要从理论、学科、方法、思想等方面梳理新进展；在实践方面主要包括对党和国家基本政治制度完善、国家治理新进展等进行梳理和研究，以便政治学学界同仁和学子进一步研究和创新中国政治学理论与实践，促进中国特色社会主义政治学繁荣与发展，并更好地服务于新时代国家政治建设和政治发展，服务于“四个全面战略布局”的实施和推进。

This book strives to objectively sort out and record the overall development of Chinese political science theory and practice in 2017, and mainly sort out new progress in political science theory research from the aspects of theory, discipline, method and thought. In terms of practice, it mainly includes sorting out and studying the improvement of the basic political system of the party and the state and the new progress of national governance, so that colleagues and students in the field of political science can further research and innovate the theory and practice of Chinese political science, promote the prosperity and development of socialist political science with Chinese characteristics, and better serve the national political construction and political development in the new era, and serve the implementation and promotion of the "four comprehensive strategic layouts".（AI翻译）