BUDOVÁNÍ POSTSOVĚTSKÉHO STÁTU. UKRAJINA A GRUZIE NA CESTĚ K DEMOKRACII A (NEBO) STABILITĚ?

• Authors: Vincent Kopeček , Jakub Kašpar

Title variants

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Building post-Soviet state. Ukraine and Georgia on the way to democracy and (or) stability?

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

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The article analyses political transformations in Ukraine and Georgia after Orange and Rose Revolutions. Both countries are treated as hybrid regimes and the concept of competitive authoritarianism is used as the main framework for the comparison. Afterwards, diverging political paths of Ukraine and Georgia are interpreted by means of the theory of patronal politics. In the conclusion we argue that whereas Ukraine’s political liberalisation lead to political chaos, economic stagnation and, finally, to the autocratic backsliding, Georgia’s focus on reforms under relatively autocratic Saakashvili’s administration resulted in relatively stable and efficient institutional framework, which enabled political liberalisation of the country after 2012.

Keywords

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UKRAINE; GEORGIA; HYBRID REGIMES; COMPETITIVE AUTHORITARIANISM; PATRONAL POLITICS; POST-SOVIET STATES; DEMOCRACY

• Publisher: Institute of Political Sciences, Faculty of Arts, University of Prešov
• Journal: Annales Scientia Politica
• Year: 2016
• Volume: 5
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 17 – 31

Contributors

author

Vincent Kopeček

• Department of Human Geography and Regional Development, Faculty of Science, University of Ostrava, Czech Republic

author

Jakub Kašpar