Ukraine s Decentralization: Challenges and Implications of the Local Governance Reform after the Euromaidan Revolution (Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society) - Hardcover

Andreas Umland

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3838211626 ISBN 13: 9783838211626

Publisher: Ibidem Press/Ibidem-Verlag, 2018

Synopsis

Ukraines 20132014 Revolution of Dignity also became known as The Euromaidan, which literally means European Square and refers to the countrys Association Agreement with the European Union. Viktor Yanukovychs postponement of the signing of this large treaty preparing Ukraine for a future EU membership application triggered the initial protests leading to the upheaval. Since then, much of Western attention to Ukrainian domestic affairs has focused on reform policies and political conflicts related to the countrys Europeanization, i.e. its adoption of EU standards and legislation. In contrast, a parallel major transformation with little relation to Ukraines EU-association processa multidimensional local governance and territorial reformhas been receiving less Western journalistic and scholarly attention. That is in spite of the fact that the gradual decentralization process that Ukraines first post-Euromaidan government started in April 2014 is an exceptionally far-ranging and already advanced reform project. It redefines not only Ukrainian center-periphery interactions, but also state-society as well as government-citizen relations. This collected volume presents five narrowly focused research papers by Max Bader (Leiden University), Igor Dunayev (Kharkiv Regional Institute of Public Administration), Melanie Mierzejewski-Voznyak (Prague Institute of International Relations), Maryna Rabinovych (Mechnikov University of Odessa), and Oleksii Sydorchuk (Ilko Kucheriv Democratic Initiatives Foundation, Kyiv). It is the first book-size English scholarly publication on Ukraines decentralization, focusing on specific problems as well as repercussions of this multifaceted process and covering issues ranging from fiscal governance to party politics. It illustrates the depth and multifariousness of the impact of Ukraines ongoing local governance reform.

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Dr. Andreas Umland studied Politics and History in Leipzig, Berlin, Oxford, Stanford, and Cambridge. He is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy and Analyst at the Stockholm Center for Eastern European Studies. Umland is editor of the book series SPPS and “Ukrainian Voices.” He has published in, among other peer-reviewed outlets, World Affairs, Perspectives on Political Science, Political Studies Review, European Political Science, Journal of Democracy, Problems of Post-Communism, Nationalities Papers, and Communist and Post-Communist Studies. Dr. Andreas Umland studied Politics and History in Leipzig, Berlin, Oxford, Stanford, and Cambridge. He is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy and Analyst at the Stockholm Center for Eastern European Studies. Umland is editor of the book series SPPS and “Ukrainian Voices.” He has published in, among other peer-reviewed outlets, World Affairs, Perspectives on Political Science, Political Studies Review, European Political Science, Journal of Democracy, Problems of Post-Communism, Nationalities Papers, and Communist and Post-Communist Studies. Dr. Valentyna Romanova studied Political Science in Kyiv and Edinburgh. She lives in Tokyo and is a Research Fellow at the Institute of Developing Economies―Japan External Trade Organization. Romanova is co-editor of the Annual Reviews of Regional Elections of Regional and Federal Studies. She has published in, among other peer-reviewed outlets, Post-Soviet Affairs, Perspectives on European Politics and Society, Politics, Survival, The Ideology and Politics Journal, Politychni doslidzhennya, Demokratizatsiya, Kyiv-Mohyla Law and Politics Journal, and Zeitschrift für Politik.

Edition details

• Publisher: Ibidem Press/Ibidem-Verlag
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3838211626
• ISBN 13: 9783838211626
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 200