Market democracy unleashed? Business elites and the crisis of competitive authoritarianism in Ukraine

Business and Politics

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2008, Pages

  Gould, John A ^a   Hetman, Yaroslav ^b  

^a Department of Psychology

^b El Pomar Foundation

Author keywords

Authoritarianism; Democracy; Economic reform; Oligarchs; Orange revolution; Privatization; Ukraine; Yanukovych; Yushchenko

Indexed keywords

EID: 55549104075     PISSN: 13695258     EISSN: 14693569     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2202/1469-3569.1236     Document Type: Review

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