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Stability, Crisis and Breakdown: Some Notes on the Concept of Crisis in Political Analysis *
Author(s) -
Svensson Palle
Publication year - 1986
Publication title -
scandinavian political studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.65
H-Index - 41
eISSN - 1467-9477
pISSN - 0080-6757
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9477.1986.tb00341.x
Subject(s) - politics , argument (complex analysis) , political crisis , stability (learning theory) , political science , transformation (genetics) , political economy , positive economics , economic system , law and economics , economics , law , computer science , chemistry , biochemistry , machine learning , gene
The argument of the paper is that political science would benefit from clarification of the concept ‘crisis’. and that this clarification should be related to neighbouring concepts such as ‘stability’ and ‘breakdown’. It is suggested that the stability of a political regime is demonstrated by its ability to avoid transformation as well as breakdown at times of crisis when the continuity of the regime's identifying characteristics is threatened.