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In the European political science M. Weber's conception is the most influential methodological and theoretical approach to the state management reforms. The Weber conception strongly distinguishes the political and state management spheres. This approach considers the administrative reforms only in the functional aspect apart from political discussions and political struggle. The second important methodological and theoretical approach to the modern administrative reforms is the system approach. This approach considers the state management as an integrated system with its inherent elements, structures, and functions. It also looks at the administrative reforms as system innovations. Today in the European reforms the contingency approach is an important supplement to the system approach, which presupposes the thorough analysis of the specific management situation in the process of the administrative reforms for the purpose of its systematic changing. Modern European researchers mark out some basic principles of the state management reforming in the European developed countries such as: principle of evolutional development, which presupposes stage-by-stage reforms without «shock therapy»; orientation to the modern technologies of management and the modern informational support of management; society control for state management.