Crises of Political Development in Ukraine: The Challenges of Post-soviet State-building and Ways to Overcome Them

The essays of this collected volume analyze Ukrainian political development crises as components of a larger modernization crisis syndrome. In particular, the papers deal with crises of identity, legitimacy, penetration, distribution, and participation as well as with their interaction with each other. This approach provides a deeper understanding of the nature of political crises in Ukraine and their impact on democratization.
The neo-institutional approach underlying this study allows for an examination of political development crises as systemic and permanent phenomena. The authors identify causes of each type of political development crisis, characterize their specific features in Ukraine, and forecast their further evolution. Readers thereby gain an analytical toolkit for assessing crisis phenomena and potential ways to mitigate them.
The volume’s contributors are Rostyslav Balaban, Svitlana Brekharya, Leonid Kiyanitsa, Nataliia Kononeko, Tetyana Lyashenko, Vitaliy Pereveziy, Oleg Rafalskiy, Svitlana Sytnyk and Galyna Zelenko.

Prof. Galyna Zelenko, Dr. Sc., is a Corresponding Member of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and Deputy Director of Research at the Kuras Institute of Political and Ethnic Studies. She also serves as Vice President of the Ukrainian Political Science Association and is a Member of the Council of the International Political Science Association. Zelenko is the author of numerous scholarly publications on political institutions in Ukraine and post-communist transformations.

Prof. Oleg Rafalskiy is Director of the Kuras Institute of Political and Ethnic Studies of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine