Who Owns The Ukrainian State? Tensions between the People and the Elites After 1991

Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
<a href="https://doi.org/10.13173/9783447117715.025" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.13173/9783447117715.025</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.13173/9783447117715.025" target="_blank" >10.13173/9783447117715.025</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Who Owns The Ukrainian State? Tensions between the People and the Elites After 1991
Original language description
This research examines the post-1991 history of Ukraine through tensions between its people and the elites, which carves out space for an examination of the political agency of the people, subsequently re-imagined as populus, demos, and plebs. Acemoglu andRobinson's framework (2019) that defines a political regime through relations between a state and a society stands as a conceptual backbone of the present study. It is complemented with a political rendering of Albert O. Hirschman's approach (1970) to explicate the main strategies of political action Ukrainians lean upon. Several ideal-typical settings are distinguished and described: 1) 'Potemkin democracy', referring to patronal politics with disempowered people falling back on the 'exit'strategy, interpreted as migration, curtailed reproduction, and disengagement from the political sphere; 2) 'radical democracy', in which people resort to mass protests in order to acquire a 'voice'in strategic decision-making; 3) 'ocular democracy', in which people form the audience in a political theatre, defined through their 'loyalty'to a leader as their political 'trustee', with social media presence and sociological polls acting as feedback loops.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year
2022
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Book/collection name
Analyzing conflict settings. Case studies from Eastern Europe with a focus on Ukraine.
ISBN
978-3-447-11771-5
Number of pages of the result
20
Pages from-to
25-44
Number of pages of the book
333
Publisher name
Harrassowitz Verlag
Place of publication
Wiesbaden
UT code for WoS chapter
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