
Decentralization and Multilevel Elections in Ukraine
Reform Dynamics and Party Politics in 2010-2021
Valentyna Romanova(Author)
ibidem (Publisher)
Published on 31. October 2022
Book
Paperback/Softback
220 pages
978-3-8382-1700-0 (ISBN)
Description
The post-2014 decentralization policy is consolidating the center-periphery relations in Ukraine. Already before 2014, domestic policymakers had been drafting proposals for local amalgamation and an increase of regional authority. Before the 2020 watershed subnational elections, only the local amalgamation policy was completed, however. A significant repercussion of the post-2014 decentralization reform has been a sharp decrease in congruence of the shares of competing national parties in the parliamentary, regional, and municipal electoral arenas. On the other hand, the party system has, at the municipal level, become less fragmented. Regional councils have, in contrast, remained highly fragmented. The outcomes of the indirect elections of regional councils' heads have benefitted Ukraine's ruling party.
Methodologically, the book illustrates the added value of investigating elections from a multilevel perspective. It contributes to the comparative exploration of party systems change over time, and constitutes a case study of more general patterns of interaction between municipal decentralization and political development in democratizing states.
Reviews / Votes
"Ukraine's 2014 law on local government was among the most ambitious reforms in the country's three decades of independence. Valentyna Romanova provides a detailed analysis of the political sources and consequences of the law. She shows how the increased power of local governments has altered electoral behavior and the party system across the country, as local party politics have become partly delinked from the national level. The consequences that Dr. Romanova demonstrates will have significant effects on politics and democratization in Ukraine. This is a valuable book for those interested in Ukrainian politics or in local government reform." Paul D'Anieri, Professor of Political Science and Public Policy, University of California, Riverside, USAMore details
Series
Edition
New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Hannover
Germany
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
New edition
Dimensions
Height: 210 mm
Width: 148 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
291 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-8382-1700-0 (9783838217000)
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Valentyna Romanova
Decentralization and Multilevel Elections in Ukraine
Reform Dynamics and Party Politics in 2010-2021
E-Book
10/2022
ibidem
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Valentyna Romanova
Decentralization and Multilevel Elections in Ukraine
Reform Dynamics and Party Politics in 2010-2021
E-Book
10/2022
ibidem
€18.99
Available for download
Persons
Author
Dr. Valentyna Romanova studied Political Science at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy and the University of Edinburgh. She lives in Tokyo and is a member of the Japanese Association of Russian and East European Studies and the Japanese Association of Ukrainian Studies. Also, she is co-editor of the Annual Reviews of Regional Elections in the UK journal Regional and Federal Studies. Her research has been published in English, German, Russian, and Ukrainian in, among others, Post-Soviet Affairs, Perspectives on European Politics and Society, Politics, Survival, Regional & Federal Studies, Vox Ukraine, Democratic Audit Blog, The Ideology and Politics Journal, Politychni doslidzhennia, and the Kyiv-Mohyla Law and Politics Journal, as well as in reports by Chatham House, the Bertelsmann Foundation, and Wilson Center's Kennan Institute.
Series Editor
Andreas Umland, M.Phil. (Oxford), Dr.Phil. (FU Berlin), Ph.D. (Cambridge), Research Fellow at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs in Stockholm, Senior Expert at the Ukrainian Institute for the Future in Kyiv, and Associate Professor at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy.
ISNI: 0000 0001 1662 6604
ISNI: 0000 0001 1662 6604
Preface
Dr. Kimitaka Matsuzato is Professor of Law and Politics at the University of Tokyo.