Abstract

The article deals with the content of the concept of «crisis» and «stability» in the context of social and political development. The term «crisis» and «stability» is controversy, mutually exclusive. The crisis – this instability and stability – a lack of crisis. It is shown that the location of the deployment of the political crisis is a political system that is nonlinear system dynamic. The concept of crisis marks the unstable state of the system, which is characterized by uncertainty and nonpredictability. In relation to the environment crisis system – a system disorder relationship with the environment due to the transition of the system to other phases of its development. Determined that the balance and stability on the one hand, and the crisis loss of balance of power between the main actors, leading to instability of institutions, on the other hand, forming two potential «poles» that cause and «energy» of the political process, the vectors of its changes. This process affects the type of the country and its institutional organization. In general, the political crisis dysfunction manifested in political institutions, and is characterized by loss of legitimacy of institutional and substantive elements of the political system. Legitimacy can become leaders, political leaders, political leaders and even the basic law of the country. The indicators serve as the political crisis of the political system parameters responsible for the restoration of the political system. Violations of system­parameters mean that in the looming crisis.