Aleksandr Tkachenko

Economic relations represent a multifactorial phenomenon. To examine this question allows us to consider the processes between the economic subjects in the course of their interaction. Understanding of the nature and structure of economic relations makes it possible to effectively apply those or other mechanisms pur-sued socio-economic policy in the country more effectively in the new economic reality.

The article examines the formation of scientific and practical approaches in the study of models and trends in contemporary socio-economic policy of the state; show the essence and differences of the model of "competitive federalism" model of the evolution of Darwinian type; synergistic model of regional policy and its structural element – the model of "spatial clustering"; model "exchanges."