Ukraine's Decentralization

This book illustrates specific problems and repercussions of Ukraine's ongoing local governance reform as well as wartime challenges.

After Ukraine's 201314 Revolution of Dignity, much Western attention to Ukrainian domestic policies has been focused on the country's Europeanization in the narrow and technical sense of the word, i.e. to its adoption of EU standards and legislation. In contrast, a parallel major transformation with no direct relation to Ukraine's EU association and accessiona multidimensional local governance and territorial reformhas been receiving less journalistic and scholarly coverage. That is in spite of the fact that the gradual decentralization process that Ukraine's first post-Euromaidan government started in April 2014 is an exceptionally far-ranging and already advanced transition. It redefines not only Ukrainian center-periphery interactions, but also state-society as well as government-citizen relations.

This collected volume is one of the first of its kind and presents eleven narrowly focused research papers by Oleksandra Deineko, Melanie Mierzejewski-Voznyak, Maryna Rabinovych, Aadne Aasland, Max Bader, Igor Dunayev, Yuriy Palekha, Oleksii Sydorchuk, and the editors. The chapters illustrate specific problems as well as repercussions of Ukraine's ongoing local governance reform ranging from fiscal governance to party politics as well as wartime challenges.

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Andreas Umland, M.Phil. (Oxford), Dr.Phil. (FU Berlin), Ph.D. (Cambridge), Research Fellow at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs in Stockholm, Senior Expert at the Ukrainian Institute for the Future in Kyiv, and Associate Professor at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy.Andreas Umland, M.Phil. (Oxford), Dr.Phil. (FU Berlin), Ph.D. (Cambridge), Research Fellow at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs in Stockholm, Senior Expert at the Ukrainian Institute for the Future in Kyiv, and Associate Professor at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy.Dr. Valentyna Romanova studied Political Science in Kyiv and Edinburgh. She lives in Tokyo and is a Research Fellow at the Institute of Developing EconomiesJapan External Trade Organization. Romanova is co-editor of the Annual Reviews of Regional Elections of Regional and Federal Studies. She has published in, among other peer-reviewed outlets, Post-Soviet Affairs, Perspectives on European Politics and Society, Politics, Survival, The Ideology and Politics Journal, Politychni doslidzhennya, Demokratizatsiya, Kyiv-Mohyla Law and Politics Journal, and Zeitschrift für Politik.