State and institution building in Ukraine / edited by Taras Kuzio, Robert S. Kravchuk, and Paul D'Anieri.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kuzio, Taras.

Kravchuk, Robert S., 1955-

D'Anieri, Paul J., 1965-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ukraine--Politics and government--1991-2014.

Ukraine.

Politics and government.

Post-communism--Ukraine.

Post-communism.

Physical Description:

364 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : St. Martin's Press, 1999.

Summary:

State and Institution Building in Ukraine represents the first in-depth and comprehensive study of state building in Ukraine. As opposed to previous books that have focused on the political and economic transformation of the Soviet successor states, this volume argues that a market economy and democracy cannot exist in the absence of an effective state and governing institutions. Ukraine was only a quasi-state within the former USSR when it declared independence in August 1991, and thus it inherited only the rudiments of what is normally considered a "modern state." The development of a viable and capable state with effective institutions was prioritized by the executive and legislative branches who understood that a democracy, civil society, rule of law, and a market economy could not be created in the absence of a genuine, functioning state. This study is the first to survey institution and state building in Ukraine by placing it within a comparative and theoretical perspective, challenging many of the current misconceptions about Ukraine and other post-Soviet countries in the throes of their transformation projects.

Contents:

1. Stateness and Institutions in Ukraine: A Theoretical and Comparative Introduction / Taras Kuzio 1

2. The Separation of Powers Puzzle in Ukraine: Sorting Out Responsibilities and Relationships between President, Parliament, and the Prime Minister / Charles R. Wise, Volodymyr Pigenko 25

3. Ukrainian Interest Groups, Corporatism, and Economic Reform / Paul Kubicek 57

4. The Impact of Domestic Divisions on Ukrainian Foreign Policy: Ukraine as a "Weak State" / Paul D'Anieri 83

5. Like Oil and Water: Ukraine's External Westernization and Internal Stagnation / Sherman W. Garnett 107

6. The Law on the Civil Service: A Case Study of Administrative Reform in Ukraine / Bohdan Krawchenko 135

7. The Quest for Balance: Regional Self-Government and Subnational Fiscal Policy in Ukraine / Robert S. Kravchuk 155

8. Defining the Political Community in Ukraine: State, Nation, and the Transition to Modernity / Taras Kuzio 213

9. Corruption in Ukraine: Between Perceptions and Realities / Roman P. Zyla 245

10. Institutional Power and Ideology in the Ukrainian Constitutional Process / Oliver Vorndran 269.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [338]-349) and index.

ISBN:

0312214588

OCLC:

40467410