Institutionalization of Political Conflicts (Case Study: the Republic of Finland)

Abstract

The article offers the author's interpretation of the mechanism of institutionalization of political conflicts under the conditions of political institutions' transformation in Finland. Some actors of institutionalization of a political conflict are defined. They are rationally thinking and qualified representatives of the elite, declaring interests of the constitutional state and civil society. The means of providing institutionalization of a political conflict is a competitive multiparty system that makes it impossible for a single political force to seize power and an agreement to a state's international legal personality that allows to maintain sovereignty. The author states that the process of institutionalization of a political conflict tends to vibrate due to some influences of international, economic, institutional and normative character which lead to a conflict's deinstitutionalization. Then, after a certain period of time, due to the actors of institutionalization's activities a kind of reinstitutionalization of a political conflict takes place.