D'Anieri / Kuzio Aspects of the Orange Revolution I.

Democratization and Elections in Post-Communist Ukraine
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-3-8382-5698-6
Verlag: ibidem
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, Band 63, 250 Seiten, E-Book, Format (B × H): 127 mm x 203 mm

Reihe: Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society

Ukraine’s 2004 presidential election was falsified, spurring the Orange Revolution. To many observers, the Orange Revolution was a shock, and the stolen elections a recent development. However, both the election fraud and the effort to topple the government of Leonid Kuchma emerged from political dynamics that had appeared in earlier Ukrainian elections.

In this path breaking volume, leading scholars place Ukraine’s 2004 Orange Revolution in the longer perspective of Ukraine’s post-Soviet electoral politics. Covering both presidential and parliamentary elec-tions over the entire post-Soviet period, the chapters clarify the man-ner in which earlier elections had emerged as part of the battle for power in Ukraine well before 2004. The opposition that came to power in 2004 had also won the 2002 elections and had developed its strategies during opposition protests that had been catalyzed by the Kuchmagate crisis in 2000. The evolution of the dynamics that led to the fraudulent 2004 election reveals that the events of 2004 represented continuity as well as change. By placing the 2004 elections within a longer trajectory, the volume enriches our understanding of the Orange Revolution and helps us to understand the difficulties faced in consolidating Ukraine’s democratic breakthrough following the Orange Revolution.

The volume contains an introduction to Aspects of the Orange Revo-lution I-VI by Andreas Umland followed by eight chapters by Robert K. Christensen, Edward R. Rakhimkulov and Charles Wise, Paul D’Anieri, Robert Kravchuk and Victor Chudowsky, Paul Kubicek, Taras Kuzio, Lucan Way, and Anna Makhorkina. These authors bring complex and varied perspectives that situate Ukraine’s post-Soviet elections in economic reforms, constitutional law, foreign policy objectives of integrating into Europe, as well as in the broader context of the rough and tumble competition for political control of Ukraine

Autoren/Hrsg.

D'Anieri, Paul

Kuzio, Taras

Weitere Mitwirkende

Umland, Andreas

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction to Aspects of the Orange Revolution I-VI: Ukraine's Second Transition in the Russian Mirror, by Andreas Umland
Ukraine's 1994 Elections as an Economic Event, by Robert S. Kravchuk and Victor Chudowsky
Regime Type and Politics in Ukraine under Kuchma, by Taras Kuzio
Rapacious Individualism and Political Competition in Ukraine, 1992-2004, by Lucan A. Way
The Ukrainian Orange Revolution Brought More than a New President: What Kind of Democracy Will the
Institutional Changes Bring?, by Robert K. Christensen, Edward R. Rakhimkulov, and Charles R. Wise
The Last Hurrah: The 2004 Ukrainian Presidential Elections and the Limits of Machine Politics, by Paul D'Anieri
Ukrainian Political Parties and Foreign Policy in Election Campaigns: The Parliamentary Elections of 1998 and 2002, by Anna Makhorkina
The European Union and Democratization in Ukraine, by Paul Kubicek

Über Autor(innen)

Dr. Paul D’Anieri is Professor of Political Science at the University of Kansas.
Dr. Taras Kuzio is Research Associate at The Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University, DC.