Ukraine S Election

Author : Sarah Birch
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 0312234570

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Elections and Democratization in Ukraine by Sarah Birch Pdf

Elections and Democratization in Ukraine analyses the role of competitive elections in Ukraine's crucial democratic transition period of 1989 to 1998. The series of four parliamentary elections, two presidential elections and three referendums which punctuated Ukraine's road to democracy provide important insights into the social and political forces shaping the new state's identity. Two specific research questions are addressed: - How do Ukranian voters make vote choices? - Which electoral cleavages are the most important? Contrary to those who claim that the Soviet Union left in its wake an atomized society with weak social divisions, this study argues that the Ukrainian electorate has, from the advent of competitive elections, exhibited relatively stable patterns of voting behaviour which can be explained to a great extent in terms of social divisions that developed in Soviet Ukraine and were made politically salient by the events of the transition period.

Author : Mikhail G. Myagkov,Peter C. Ordeshook,Dimitri Shakin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0511650736

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The Forensics of Election Fraud by Mikhail G. Myagkov,Peter C. Ordeshook,Dimitri Shakin Pdf

This volume offers a number of forensic indicators of election fraud applied to official election returns, and tests and illustrates their application in Russia and Ukraine. Included are the methodology s econometric details and theoretical assumptions. The applications to Russia include the analysis of all federal elections between 1996 and 2007 and, for Ukraine, between 2004 and 2007. Generally, we find that fraud has metastasized within the Russian polity during Putin s administration with upwards of 10 million or more suspect votes in both the 2004 and 2007 balloting, whereas in Ukraine, fraud has diminished considerably since the second round of its 2004 presidential election where between 1.5 to 3 million votes were falsified. The volume concludes with a consideration of data from the United States to illustrate the dangers of the application of our methods without due consideration of an election s substantive context and the characteristics of the data at hand.

Author : Steven Pifer
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780815730620

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The Eagle and the Trident by Steven Pifer Pdf

An insider’s account of the complex relations between the United States and post-Soviet Ukraine The Eagle and the Trident provides the first comprehensive account of the development of U.S. diplomatic relations with an independent Ukraine, covering the years 1992 through 2004 following the collapse of the Soviet Union. The United States devoted greater attention to Ukraine than any other post-Soviet state (except Russia) after the breakup of the Soviet Union. Steven Pifer, a career Foreign Service officer, worked on U.S.-Ukraine relations at the State Department and the White House during that period and also served as ambassador to Ukraine. With this volume he has written the definitive narrative of the ups and downs in the relationship between Washington and newly independent Ukraine. The relationship between the two countries moved from heady days in the mid- 1990s, when they declared a strategic partnership, to troubled times after 2002. During the period covered by the book, the United States generally succeeded in its major goals in Ukraine, notably the safe transfer of nearly 2,000 strategic nuclear weapons left there after the Soviet collapse. Washington also provided robust support for Ukraine’s effort to develop into a modern, democratic, market-oriented state. But these efforts aimed at reforming the state proved only modestly successful, leaving a nation that was not resilient enough to stand up to Russian aggression in Crimea in 2014. The author reflects on what worked and what did not work in the various U.S. approaches toward Ukraine. He also offers a practitioner’s recommendations for current U.S. policies in the context of ongoing uncertainty about the political stability of Ukraine and Russia’s long-term intentions toward its smaller but important neighbor.

Author : Anders Aslund,Michael McFaul
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2013-01-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780870033254

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Revolution in Orange by Anders Aslund,Michael McFaul Pdf

The dramatic series of protests and political events that unfolded in Ukraine in the fall of 2004—the "Orange Revolution"—were seminal both for Ukrainian history and the history of democratization. Pro-Western presidential candidate Viktor Yushchenko was poisoned with dioxin, an industrial pollutant that left him weakened and horribly disfigured. When this assassination attempt failed, the Kremlin-backed ruling party resorted to voter intimidation and massive electoral fraud to win the runoff election. Supporters of Yushchenko responded with a series of strikes, sit-ins, and marches throughout Ukraine. Thanks in large part to this peaceful revolution, the election results were annulled. In a second runoff, Yushchenko was elected as the new president. Revolution in Orange seeks to explain why and how this nationwide protest movement occurred. Its effects have already been felt from Kyrgyzstan to Lebanon and are likely to travel even further. Yet few predicted or anticipated such a dramatic democratic breakthrough in Ukraine. This volume attempts to distinguish between necessary and facilitating factors in the success of the Orange Revolution. It also discusses the elements that have been commonly assumed to be critical but, in fact, were not instrumental in the movement. Chapters explore the role of former President Kuchma and the oligarchs, societal attitudes, the role of the political opposition and civil society, the importance of the media, and the roles of Russia and the West. Contributors include Nadia Diuk (National Endowment for Democracy), Adrian Karatnycky (Freedom House), Taras Kuzio (George Washington University), Hrihoriy Nemyria (Taras Shevchenko National University, Kiev), Pavol Demes (German Marshall Fund), Nikolai Petrov and Andrey Ryabov (Carnegie Moscow Center), and Olena Prytula (editor, Ukrainskaya Pravda).

Author : Jessica Zychowicz
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2020-09-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781487513757

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Superfluous Women by Jessica Zychowicz Pdf

Superfluous Women tells the unique story of a generation of artists, feminists, and queer activists who emerged in Ukraine after the collapse of the Soviet Union. With a focus on new media, Zychowicz demonstrates how contemporary artist collectives in Ukraine have contested Soviet and Western connotations of feminism to draw attention to a range of human rights issues with global impact. In the book, Zychowicz summarizes and engages with more recent critical scholarship on the role of digital media and virtual environments in concepts of the public sphere. Mapping out several key changes in newly independent Ukraine, she traces the discursive links between distinct eras, marked by mass gatherings on Kyiv’s main square, in order to investigate the deeper shifts driving feminist protest and politics today.

Author : Sarah Birch
Publisher : Springer
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2000-06-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780333977316

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Elections and Democratization in Ukraine by Sarah Birch Pdf

Elections and Democratization in Ukraine analyses the role of competitive elections in the Ukraine's crucial democratic transition period of 1989 to 1998, focusing on how Ukrainian voters make vote choices and which electoral cleavages are most important. Contrary to those who claim that the Soviet Union left in its wake an atomized society with weak social divisions, this study argues that the Ukrainian electorate has from the advent of competitive elections exhibited relatively stable voting behaviour.

Author : George Liber
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442621442

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Total Wars and the Making of Modern Ukraine, 1914-1954 by George Liber Pdf

Between 1914 and 1954, the Ukrainian-speaking territories in East Central Europe suffered almost 15 million “excess deaths” as well as numerous large-scale evacuations and forced population transfers. These losses were the devastating consequences of the two world wars, revolutions, famines, genocidal campaigns, and purges that wracked Europe in the first half of the twentieth century and spread new ideas, created new political and economic systems, and crafted new identities. In Total Wars and the Making of Modern Ukraine, 1914–1954, George O. Liber argues that the continuous violence of the world wars and interwar years transformed the Ukrainian-speaking population of East Central Europe into self-conscious Ukrainians. Wars, mass killings, and forced modernization drives made and re-made Ukraine’s boundaries, institutionalized its national identities, and pruned its population according to various state-sponsored political, racial, and social ideologies. In short, the two world wars, the Holodomor, and the Holocaust played critical roles in forming today’s Ukraine. A landmark study of the terrifying scope and paradoxical consequences of mass violence in Europe’s bloodlands, Liber’s book will transform our understanding of the entangled histories of Ukraine, the USSR, Germany, and East Central Europe in the twentieth century.

Author : Taras Kuzio
Publisher : Springer
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2016-07-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781349257447

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Ukraine under Kuchma by Taras Kuzio Pdf

Ukraine under Kuchma is the first survey of recent developments in post-soviet Ukraine. The book covers in an in-depth manner the entire range of key developments since the 1994 parliamentary and presidential elections, the first elections held in post-soviet Ukraine. The new era ushered in by these elections led to Ukraine's launch of radical economic and political reforms which aim to domestically dismantle soviet power within Ukraine, stabilise relations with the separatist Crimean region and normalise relations with Russia and the West.

Author : Orest Subtelny
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 829 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2009-11-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442697287

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Ukraine by Orest Subtelny Pdf

In 1988, the first edition of Orest Subtelny's Ukraine was published to international acclaim, as the definitive history of what was at that time a republic in the USSR. In the years since, the world has seen the dismantling of the Soviet bloc and the restoration of Ukraine's independence - an event celebrated by Ukrainians around the world but which also heralded a time of tumultuous change for those in the homeland. While previous updates brought readers up to the year 2000, this new fourth edition includes an overview of Ukraine's most recent history, focusing on the dramatic political, socio-economic, and cultural changes that occurred during the Kuchma and Yushchenko presidencies. It analyzes political developments - particularly the so-called Orange Revolution - and the institutional growth of the new state. Subtelny examines Ukraine's entry into the era of globalization, looking at social and economic transformations, regional, ideological, and linguistic tensions, and describes the myriad challenges currently facing Ukrainian state and society.

Author : Andrew Wilson
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2006-01-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300143911

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Ukraine's Orange Revolution by Andrew Wilson Pdf

The remarkable popular protest in Kiev and across Ukraine following the cooked presidential election of November 2004 has transformed the politics of eastern Europe. Andrew Wilson witnessed the events firsthand and here looks behind the headlines to ascertain what really happened and how it will affect the future of the region. It is a dramatic story: an outgoing president implicated via secret tape-recordings in corruption and murder; a shadowy world of political cheats and manipulators; the massive covert involvement of Putin’s Russia; the poisoning of the opposition challenger; and finally the mass protest of half a million Ukrainians that forced a second poll and the victory of Viktor Yushchenko. As well as giving an account of the election and its aftermath, the book examines the broader implications of the Orange Revolution and of Russia’s serious miscalculation of its level of influence. It explores the likely chain reaction in Moldova, Belarus, and the nervous autocracies of the Caucasus, and points to a historical transformation of the geopolitics of Eurasia.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on International Relations
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Political Science
ISBN : LOC:00146802229

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Ukraine's election by United States. Congress. House. Committee on International Relations Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Elections
ISBN : PURD:32754073189189

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Ukraine Parliamentary Elections by United States. Congress. Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Elections
ISBN : PURD:32754068926801

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Ukraine's Parliamentary Election by United States. Congress. Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Presidents
ISBN : PSU:000058167946

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Ukraine's presidential election by United States. Congress. Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Elections
ISBN : STANFORD:36105050688683

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Ukraine's Upcoming Elections by United States. Congress. Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe Pdf