Maksymova O. The instability of transitional political systems: political institutional and structural functional dimensions.

The objects are instable states of transitional political systems. The aim is to revealing the political institutional and structural functional dimensions of transitional political systems. The methods are system analysis, structural-functional method, institutional analysis, the comparative method and synergetic approach. The sources of the instability of political systems, the principal mechanisms of the destabilization of political systems of transitional type and their dynamics in the conditions of dysfunctions and crises are ascertained. The notions of stable and unstable conditions of political systems, the political crises of systems of different types, the preconditions and mechanisms of destabilization are analyzed. The methodological apparatus of the comparative investigations of political systems of different types is elaborated. It is established that the factors for the instability of a political system are its dysfunctions. It is determined that the important factor for the instability of a political system is the decrease of the volume of sovereignty of a state from one side as well as the existence of the disconnected type of the organization of political elites. The main parameters of the dysfunction of a political system are found. The general and specific features of the dysfunctions in Latin American and post-Communist political systems are determined. The functional peculiarities of the transitional political systems are ascertained. The preconditions of the dysfunction of a political system are analyzed. The implications of the aggravation of dysfunction are established. The structural aspect of the instability of a political system and the spheres of the emergence of crises of a political system are determined. The qualitative position and dynamics of the political system of Ukraine in the conditions of social and political transformations are ascertained. Application spheres are governments and training courses.