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Decentralization and Multilevel Elections in Ukraine

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Romanova's innovative monograph provides an important contribution to the comparative exploration of party system change over time and constitutes a case study of more general patterns of interacti...
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  • 27 December 2022
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The post-2014 decentralisation policy is consolidating the centre-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 decentralisation 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. Methodologically, the book synthesises conceptual tools and theoretical insights from democratisation studies and the field of territorial politics. It applies the subnational comparative method and illustrates the added value of investigating elections from a multilevel perspective. Romanova's innovative monograph provides an important contribution to the comparative exploration of party system change over time and constitutes a case study of more general patterns of interaction bet-ween municipal decentralisation and electoral competition in democratising states.
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Price: $34.00
Pages: 200
Publisher: Ibidem Press
Imprint: Ibidem Press
Series: Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society
Publication Date: 27 December 2022
Trim Size: 8.27 X 5.83 in
ISBN: 9783838217000
Format: Paperback
BISACs: POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Russian & Soviet
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Packed with insightful analysis and providing a longue durée outlook, Decentralization and Multilevel Elections in Ukraine is an indispensable read to understand the complexity of uprooting the Soviet legacy in governance. This is a profoundly interesting read that highlights the drivers behind the decentralization and also outlines the unfinished business of boosting local electoral democracy. Ukraine’s journey is instructive for many in the region still struggling to reinvent governance. This book offers a fascinating guidance for such an exploration!

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.