«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 book is available for pre-order at the following link: cup.columbia.edu/book/crises-of-political-development-in-ukraine/9783838220277/
CONTENTS
Introduction (Oleg Rafalskiy)Chapter 1. Theoretical foundations of the study of political development crises: the Ukrainian context (Leonid Kiyanitsa)
Chapter 2. The crisis of identity as a crisis of political culture, consciousness, and ideology (Svitlana Brekharya, Leonid Kiyanitsa, Nataliia Kononenko, Galyna Zelenko)
Chapter 3. The crisis of legitimacy in Ukraine, or why Ukrainians chronically do not trust the state (Nataliia Kononenko)
Chapter 4. The crisis of distribution as a sign of the crisis of socio-economic functions of the state (Tetyana Lyashenko, Svitlana Sytnyk)
Chapter 5. The crisis of penetration and its role in the destruction of social capital in Ukraine (Svitlana Brekharya)
Chapter 6. The crisis of participation. There is no democracy without political participation (Rostyslav Balaban, Vitaliy Pereveziy)
Chapter 7. Consequences of the impact of crises of political development on socio-political processes in Ukraine (Galyna Zelenko, Oleg Rafalskiy)
Conclusions (Galyna Zelenko)