Political Crisis in Modern Ukraine: Causes and Factors of Development

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.