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.
