Andreas Romanova Umland: Ukraine¿s Decentralization, Kartoniert / Broschiert

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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.