The political crisis is a disorder of the political system, accompanied by a violation of its normal functioning, associated with the refusal of a significant part of citizens to support the managing organization. The population expresses distrust of the executive branch and the ruling party, and it expresses dissatisfaction with the country's policies. This leads to the fact that the system in such conditions cannot successfully perform its functions.
A political crisis can arise between countries or within the framework of one state, when it is impossible to coordinate actions between political forces. Foreign policy crises are developing due to international contradictions. Internal (parliamentary, governmental, constitutional and others) are the result of the divergence of political interests between different social forces within the country.
Government crisis is the most common occurrence when the government loses credibility, which leads to non-compliance with executive orders. He may be accompanied by a change of leaders or forms of government. The parliamentary crisis is expressed in a change in the balance of power in the legislature, when parliament’s actions diverge from the majority of citizens. As a result, the existing legislative body is dissolved and new elections are held. The constitutional crisis is associated with the termination of the Basic Law, when it loses legitimacy and there is a need for its revision.
Political conflicts and crises have in common. Political conflict is only a form of expression of the crisis, which consists in the open action of the masses against the existing organization of the central government. Conflict can develop into rebellion, revolution, go into reaction and counter-revolution.
Crises and conflicts are based on social contradictions. They are born when society (its opposing forces) does not see other ways to realize their own interests, except entering into an open struggle in order to eliminate these contradictions.
However, an open clash (conflict) is not always the only and best form of resolving the contradictions that lead to the situation when a stable political crisis begins to develop. Sometimes the evolutionary path is more promising, especially considering the high cost of the conflict and the revolutionary means used in resolving contradictions. In this case, the accumulated discrepancies are deliberately disaggregated and lowered from the height of the level of society to the level of individuals.
Today, protracted interracial and interethnic conflicts exist in Canada, the USA, Great Britain, the countries of the former CSFR, SFRY, and the USSR.
In Russia, the political crisis that has developed in recent years has become stable and irreversible. This does not mean that soon the country will "take to the streets." The crisis is more likely expressed in growing fatigue from political leaders and the power elite in power.
Already in May 2011, experts predicted a fall in tandem ratings and the fact that the authorities would be unable to maintain positions without using administrative resources. This means that the trust of the population of power has decreased so much that there is a threat of complete loss of its political control over the country. Dissatisfaction is growing not only in the middle class (as it was before), but in almost all social strata.
The country is "emerging from the left bank", which indicates the formation of prerequisites for the formation of a new center-right majority party.