EAN: 9783838217000

DECENTRALIZATION AND MULTILEVEL ELECTIONS IN UK...

The post-2014 decentralization policy is consolidating the center-periphery relations in
Ukraine. Already before 2014  domestic policymakers had been drafting proposals for local
amalgamation and an increase of regional authority. Before the 2020 watershed subnational
elections  only the local amalgamation policy was completed  however. A significant
repercussion of the post-2014 decentralization reform has been a sharp decrease in congruence
of the shares of competing national parties in the parliamentary  regional  and municipal
electoral arenas. On the other hand  the party system has  at the municipal level  become less
fragmented. Regional councils have  in contrast  remained highly fragmented. The outcomes of
the indirect elections of regional councils' heads have benefitted Ukraine's ruling party.
Methodologically  the book illustrates the added value of investigating elections from a
multilevel perspective. It contributes to the comparative exploration of party systems change
over time  and constitutes a case study of more general patterns of interaction between
municipal decentralization and political development in democratizing states.

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