The Ukrainian parliamentary elections of 2007

Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 297-309

  Copsey, Nathaniel ^a  

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EID: 43149088731     PISSN: 13523279     EISSN: 17439116     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13523270802003129     Document Type: Article

References (17)

1. Taras Kuzio, 'Trends and Opinion Polls Reveal Shifting Voter Preferences in Ukraine', Eurasian Daily Monitor, Vol.4, No.171 (2007), available at , accessed 5 Feb. 2008.
2. See the Central Electoral Committee of Ukraine's website, http://www.cvk.gov.ua.
3. Anamendment to the Ukrainian Constitution of 8 December 2006 explicitlymentioned that deputies would lose their seat in the Verkhovna Rada if they left the faction of the party on whose list theywere elected: See SarahWhitmore, '"Damitmüssenwir leben".Das neuer Parlament und die neue Regierrungsysteme der Ukraine', Ukraine-Analysen, 2006, No.5, pp.2-6.
4. Nathaniel Copsey, 'The Ukrainian Parliamentary Elections of 2006', Representation, Vol.42, No.4 (2006), pp.333-45.
5. See Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), 'Regulatory and Competition Reforms Critical to Ukraine's Future Economic Growth' (2007), available at , accessed 5 Feb. 2008.
6. See Nathaniel Copsey, 'Popular Politics and the Ukrainian Presidential Elections of 2004', Politics, Vol.25, No.2 (2005), pp.99-16
7. Copsey, 'The Ukrainian Parliamentary Elections of 2006'.
8. See Zerkalo nedeli, 22 Sept. 2007.
9. The OSCE's report is available at http://www.osce.org/odihr-elections/ item_12_17721.html., accessed 5 Feb. 2008.
10. This term was originally used by Lucan A. Way in his article, 'Pluralism by Default in Moldova', Journal of Democracy, Vol.13, No.4 (2002), pp.127-41.
11. Although the PCA was signed in 1994, it did not come into force until 1998; it was supplemented by an Action Plan in 2005.
12. For more information on this, see Stephen White, Julia Korosteleva and Ian McAllister, 'A Wider Europe? The View From Belarus', Ukraine and Russia', Journal of Common Market Studies, Vol.46, No.2 (2008), pp.219-41.
13. See RFE/RL Newsline, Vol.11, No.100, Part II, 29 Oct. 2007.
14. Juan J. Linz, and Alfred Stepan, Problems of Democratic Transition and Consolidation: Southern Europe, South America, and Post-Communist Europe (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996).
15. Way, 'Pluralism by Default in Moldova'.
16. I use the term financially integrated groups (FIGs) here in preference to the somewhat loaded term 'oligarchs'.
17. Note that Ukraine was rated as 139 out of 178 in the World Bank's ranking of the best places to do business.