Regional political divisions in Ukraine in 1991-2006

Nationalities Papers

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 507-532

  Katchanovski, Ivan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLITICAL CONFLICT; POLITICAL DISCOURSE; REGIONAL POLITICS;

EASTERN EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; UKRAINE;

EID: 33751076524     PISSN: 00905992     EISSN: 14653923     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00905990600952939     Document Type: Article

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1. Although the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc included some former leaders of nationalist parties, these parties were not members of this bloc.
2. Central Electoral Commission of Ukraine, , 2004, 2006.
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4. Ibid., pp. 191-239.
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21. See Birch, Elections; Birch, "Interpreting the Regional Effect in Ukrainian Politics," in Samuel Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order (New York: Touchstone, 1996), pp. 138, 165
22. Katchanovski, Cleft Countries
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24. See Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order; Katchanovski, Cleft Countries.
25. Ukrainian- and Russian-language studies of regional cleavages in post-Soviet Ukraine are mostly descriptive in nature. See, for example, Politychna kul'tura: Teoria, problemy, perspektyvy (Kyiv: Parapan, 2004)
26. Anatolii Romaniuk and Natalia Chernysh, "Shid- Zahid: Kompromis chy konfrontatsia," Filosofs'ka i sotsiolohichna dumka, Vols 3-4, 1995, pp. 104-116. Ukrainian- and Russian-language studies often reflect political value judgments concerning the regional divisions. For example, publications by pronationalist scholars refer to Eastern Ukraine as an "ugly" and heavily criminalized region.
27. See, for example, Mykola Riabchuk, Dvi Ukrainy: Realni mezhi, virtual'ni viiny (Kyiv: Krytyka, 2003). Similarly, publications by pro-Russian and pro-Communist scholars in Ukraine and Russia often brand Western Ukrainians as banderivtsi, or followers of the radical and militant nationalist organization active during World War II.
28. See Lowell Barrington and Erick Herron, "One Ukraine or Many?: Regionalism in Ukraine and its Political Consequences," Nationalities Papers, Vol. 32, No. 1, 2004, pp. 53-86.
29. Gabriel Almond and Sidney Verba, The Civic Culture: Political Attitudes and Democracy in Five Nations (Boston: Little, Brown, 1965)
30. Larry Diamond, "Causes and Effects," in Larry Diamond, ed., Political Culture and Democracy in Developing Countries (Boulder, CO: Rienner, 1993), pp. 229-249
31. Daniel Elazar, American Federalism: A View from the States (New York: Crowell, 1966)
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33. Robert Putnam, Robert Leonardi and Raffaella Y. Nanetti, Making Democracy Work: Civic Traditions in Modern Italy (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993).
34. Findings of such culturally-based stable patterns of regional political behavior provide evidence against rational choice theories, which maintain that it is self-interest and not values that motivates people to vote for political parties and candidates. See Donald Green and Ian Shapiro, Pathologies of Rational Choice Theory: A Critique of Applications in Political Science (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1994). Similarly, such culturallybased stable voting patterns challenge theories of irrational voters, which, for example, attribute the narrow victory of George Bush, the Republican Party candidate in the 2000 US presidential elections, to several million voters who voted against Al Gore, the incumbent Democratic Party candidate, because they blamed the United States vice president for drought in their states.
35. See Christopher Achen and Larry Bartels, "Blind Retrospection: Electoral Responses to Drought, Flu, and Shark Attacks," paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Boston, 29 August-1 September 2002.
36. Diamond, Political Culture
37. Elazar, American Federalism
38. Katchanovski, Cleft Countries
39. Lipset, Continental Divide
40. Putnam et al., Making Democracy Work.
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42. See Ivan Katchanovski, "Divergence in Growth in Post-Communist Countries," Journal of Public Policy, Vol. 20, No. 1, 2000, pp. 55-81
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46. Ernest Gellner, Nationalism (New York: New York University Press, 1997)
47. Robert Kaiser, The Geography of Nationalism in Russia and the USSR (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995)
48. Katchanovski, Cleft Countries
49. Orest Subtelny, Ukraine: A History (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1988).
50. See Katchanovski, Cleft Countries; Subtelny, Ukraine.
51. See Ilya Prizel, National Identity and Foreign Policy: Nationalism and Leadership in Poland, Russia and Ukraine (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998); Subtelny, Ukraine;
52. Orest Subtelny, "Russocentrism, Regionalism, and the Political Culture of Ukraine," in Vladimir Tismaneanu, ed., Political Culture and Civil Society in Russia and the New States of Eurasia (Armonk: M.E. Sharpe, 1995), pp. 189-207.
53. See Katchanovski, Cleft Countries; Subtelny, Ukraine.
54. Ivan Katchanovski, "Small Nations but Great Differences: Political Orientations and Cultures of the Crimean Tatars and the Gagauz, Europe-Asia Studies, Vol. 57, No. 6, 2005, pp. 877-894.
55. Similarly, historical experience in many regions in the geographic Center, South, and East of Ukraine differed before their incorporation by the Russian Empire. There were also differences in settlement patterns in these regions during Russian and Soviet rule.
56. See Katchanovski, Cleft Countries.
57. Rondald Inglehart et al., World Values Surveys and European Values Surveys, 1981-1984, 1990-1993, and 1995-1997 [computer file] (Ann Arbor: Institute for Social Research, 2000).
58. The inclusion of short periods of Russian and Soviet rule and non-Russian or non-Soviet rule does not significantly change regression results.
59. Regression results are not sensitive to choice of different base year for historical experience in regions of Ukraine.
60. See Barrington and Herron, "One Ukraine or Many?"
61. Because its population is much smaller than that of other regions of Ukraine, this study includes data for Sevastopol city, which has a special regional status, in data for Crimea.
62. See Inglehart et al., World Values Surveys and European Values Survey. A similar World Values Survey was conducted in Ukraine in December 1999, but this survey is not as suitable as the 1995 survey for regression analysis, because the 1999 survey did not include questions on ethnicity and language of the respondents.
63. In 2006, in contrast to the 2002 elections, the Ukrainian People's Party was not part of the "Our Ukraine Bloc, but led the Ukrainian People's Bloc.
64. See Craumer and Clem, "Ukraine's Emerging Electoral Geography";
65. Central Electoral Commission of Ukraine, , 2000, 2002
66. Central Electoral Commission of Ukraine, 2004
67. Katchanovski, Cleft Countries
68. Taras Kuzio and Andrew Wilson, Ukraine: Perestroika to Independence (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1994).
69. Ibid. and Andrew Wilson, "Ukrainian Left: In Transition to Social Democracy or Still in Thrall to the USSR?" Europe-Asia Studies, Vol. 49, No. 7, 1997, pp. 1293-1316. In contrast to the 1994 presidential elections, Leonid Kravchuk, who was the Soviet Communist Party ideology chief in Soviet Ukraine, during the 1991 elections advocated a relatively more pro-Russian political program compared to his nationalist opponents.
70. The regional vote for the Civic Congress candidates in the 1994 parliamentary elections is not available. However, candidates from this party received only 0.4% of the national vote in the first round of the 1994 elections, and they won only two out of the 450 electoral districts in the second round.
71. The weakest correlation (0.33) between the vote for the independence of Ukraine and the vote for Leonid Kuchma in the 1999 presidential elections is statistically significant at the 0.1 level.