Methodological issues of the study of imbalance phenomenon in legislation

The article is devoted to the most topical issues of methodological bases of legislative imbalance cognition as a comprehensive legal phenomenon. The author identifies a number of methodological principles, taken from the general system theory, which allows us to build the most complete and adequate theoretical model of imbalance in law as a dynamic process. The relationship of such concepts as legislative balance, legislative imbalance, defective legislation is revealed. Attention is drawn to the integrating nature of the concept of “legislative imbalance”, which is expressed in the synthesis by means of a number of opposite characteristics and trends in the development of legislation -consistence (stability) and variability (instability), equality and inequality, proportion and disproportion, consistency and coherence, etc.