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After Ukraine's 2013-14 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 accession-a multidimensional local governance and territorial reform-has 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.
About the author
Dr. Andreas Umland studied Politics and History in Leipzig, Berlin, Oxford, Stanford, and Cambridge. He is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy and Analyst at the Stockholm Center for Eastern European Studies. Umland is editor of the book series SPPS and “Ukrainian Voices.” He has published in, among other peer-reviewed outlets, World Affairs, Perspectives on Political Science, Political Studies Review, European Political Science, Journal of Democracy, Problems of Post-Communism, Nationalities Papers, and Communist and Post-Communist Studies.Dr. Andreas Umland studied Politics and History in Leipzig, Berlin, Oxford, Stanford, and Cambridge. He is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy and Analyst at the Stockholm Center for Eastern European Studies. Umland is editor of the book series SPPS and “Ukrainian Voices.” He has published in, among other peer-reviewed outlets, World Affairs, Perspectives on Political Science, Political Studies Review, European Political Science, Journal of Democracy, Problems of Post-Communism, Nationalities Papers, and Communist and Post-Communist Studies.Dr. Valentyna Romanova studied Political Science in Kyiv and Edinburgh. She lives in Tokyo and is a Research Fellow at the Institute of Developing Economies—Japan 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.
