Ukraine’s Decentralization Challenges and Implications of the Local Governance Reform after the Euromaidan Revolution Andreas Umland, Andreas Umland, Valentyna Romanova, Oleksii Sydorchuk, Maryna Rabinovych, Yuriy Palekha, Igor Dunayev, Oleksandra Deineko, Aadne Asland, Max Bader, Melanie G. Mierzejewski-Voznyak

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Umland, Andreas, Editor.

Romanova, Valentyna, Editor.

Sydorchuk, Oleksii, Contributor.

Rabinovych, Maryna, Contributor.

Palekha, Yuriy, Contributor.

Dunayev, Igor, Contributor.

Deineko, Oleksandra, Contributor.

Asland, Aadne, Contributor.

Bader, Max, Contributor.

Mierzejewski-Voznyak, Melanie G., Contributor.

Series:

Soviet and post-Soviet politics and society ; Volume 183.

Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Politics.

Ukraine.

Post-Soviet.

Dezentralisierung.

Local Subjects:

Politics.

Ukraine.

Post-Soviet.

Dezentralisierung.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (311 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Hannover ibidem 2024

Summary:

After Ukraine’s 2013–14 Revolution of Dignity, much Western attention to Ukrainian domestic policies has been focused on the country’s “Europeanization” in the narrow and technical sense of the word, i.e. to its adoption of EU standards and legislation. In contrast, a parallel major transformation with no direct relation to Ukraine’s EU association and accession—a multidimensional local governance and territorial reform—has been receiving less journalistic and scholarly coverage. That is in spite of the fact that the gradual decentralization process that Ukraine’s first post-Euromaidan government started in April 2014 is an exceptionally far-ranging and already advanced transition. It redefines not only Ukrainian center-periphery interactions, but also state-society as well as government-citizen relations. This collected volume is one of the first of its kind and presents eleven narrowly focused research papers by Oleksandra Deineko, Melanie Mierzejewski-Voznyak, Maryna Rabinovych, Aadne Aasland, Max Bader, Igor Dunayev, Yuriy Palekha, Oleksii Sydorchuk, and the editors. The chapters illustrate specific problems as well as repercussions of Ukraine’s ongoing local governance reform ranging from fiscal governance to party politics as well as wartime challenges.

Contents:

Intro

Acknowledgements and Caveats

Tables, Figures, and Maps

IntroductionTaking Stock of Ukraine's Decentralization

1. Ukraine's Early Decentralization Attempts

2. Ukraine's Local Governance Reform and Territorial Consolidation in 2014-20

3. Fiscal Decentralization in Ukraine, 2014-17 Prospects and Challenges for Amalgamated Territorial Communities

4. Decentralization Reform in Ukraine Political Context, Key Results,Public Attitudes

5. State Fragility and the Risks of Decentralization in Ukraine

6. The Effects of Decentralization on Party Politics in Ukraine

7. Trends in Ukrainian Regions in 2015-17 Toward a Decentralized Model of Regional Development

8. Spatial Planning in Ukraine's Sustainable Development and European Integration The National, Regional, and Local Levels

9. From Decentralization to Wartime Resistance Building a Cohesive Ukraine

10. Ukraine's Social Inclusion Policies Toward Internally Displaced Persons Has Local Amalgamation Made a Difference?

11. Four Geopolitical Dimensions of Ukraine's Decentralization

The Contributors.

ISBN:

9783838271620

3838271629

OCLC:

1446805722

Publisher Number:

9783838271620