How Ukrainians view their Orange Revolution: Public opinion and the national peculiarities of citizenry political activities

Demokratizatsiya

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 595-616

  Stepanenko, Viktor ^a  

^a Department of History Theory and Methodology of Sociology   (Ukraine)

Author keywords

Citizen's engagement; Democratization; Orange Revolution; Political protest; Public political activity; Ukraine

Indexed keywords

DEMOCRATIZATION; PERCEPTION; POLITICAL PARTICIPATION; POLITICAL SYSTEM;

EASTERN EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; UKRAINE;

EID: 33645829065     PISSN: 10746846     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3200/DEMO.13.4.595-618     Document Type: Article

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1. See Taras Kuzio, "From Kuchma to Yushchenko: Ukraine's 2004 Presidential Elections and the Orange Revolution," Problems of Post-Communism 52, no. 2 (March/April 2005): 29-44;
2. Taras Kuzio, "Ukraine's Orange Revolution: The Opposition's Road to Success," Journal of Democracy 16, no. 2 (April 2005): 117-30;
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31. Yakymenko, "Hromadianska aktyvnist v Ukrayini."
32. Ibid.
33. Holovakha and Panina, "Gotovnist do sotsialnogo protestu," 189.
34. See Viktor Stepanenko, "Hromadianske suspilstvo v Ukraiyni: vid praktyk 'agentsiy vplyvu' do polityky hromadianskoi uchasti," in Natsionalna bezpeka Ukraiyny: The Conference of Alumni of Educational Programs in USA, September 16-19, 2004 (Kyiv: Stylos, 2004), 106-21.
35. Kuzio, "From Kuchma to Yushchenko," 42.