Political Crisis in Modern Ukraine: Causes and Factors of Development

Abstract

The purpose of the article is to study the conditions of a political crisis, to analyse the factors of its escalation. For a detailed study of the causes of the political crisis, key achievements of domestic and foreign researchers in this direction were analysed. The article defines the main approaches to explaining the causes of the crisis in the state: economical, elitist and deprivation. The role of deprivation in the development of crisis political processes is revealed. Factors which contribute to the rapid growth of deprivation in society: control of the development of objective conditions that generate dissatisfaction of the population, and information influence. The factors of escalation of political crises are analysed, such as structural stress factors, socio-cultural, regime, accelerating factors, factor of elite fragmentation, factors of mobilization of participation and external factors are distinguished. The role of the human factor in the development of the political crisis is researched. It is proved that explaining the causes of the political crisis can be understood by the motivation of people who have decided to break the usual course of political interactions and resort to atypical forms of political activity. The causes of the emergence and deployment of the political crisis in modern Ukraine are highlighted. It is concluded that the causes of the crisis in Ukraine at the state level can be divided into two: those caused by the hybrid war and those that are systemic and distinguished by their permanence and long-term sustainability.