The sources of continuity and change of Ukraine’s incomplete state

Bibliographic Data

ID6180762
AuthorsSerhiy Kudelia (Baylor University, corresponding author)
Year2012
Volume45
Issue3-4
Pages417-428
Publication date2012-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueCommunist and Post-Communist Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0967-067X • E-ISSN: 1873-6920
PublisherUniversity of California Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1016/j.postcomstud.2012.06.006
OpenAlexW2005570853
LanguageEN
Citations received20
References cited27

This article examines the evolution of the state in Ukraine from an object of elite predation in early 1990s into a dominant actor in relations with non-state actors under Kuchma, an instrument of elite struggles for power and rents under Yushchenko and a return to a centralized state authority under Yanukovych. Despite its different transformations the state in Ukraine has been continuously characterized by the prevalence of informal levers of power and the absence of strong formal institutional foundations. As a result, after twenty years it still lacks the prerequisites of effective governance in a modern state – an impersonal bureaucracy, rule of law and mechanisms of accountability. This institutional void produces Ukraine’s vicious cycling between hybrid types of authoritarianism and democracy leaving the state dysfunctional and incomplete

Accountability · Authoritarianism · Bureaucracy · Democracy · Economic system · Economics · Elite · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Retrenchment · Sociology · State formation · Law · Political Conflict and Governance · Politics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Middle East · Post-Soviet Geopolitical Dynamics · Public Administration

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