How Patronal Networks Shape Opportunities for Local Citizen Participation in a Hybrid Regime

Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-3-8382-1671-3
Verlag: ibidem-Verlag

Buch, Englisch, 530 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 690 g

Reihe: Soviet and post-Soviet politics and society

Oleksandra Keudel proposes a novel explanation for why some local governments in hybrid regimes enable citizen participation while others restrict it. She argues that mechanisms for citizen participation are by-products of political dynamics of informal business-political (patronal) networks that seek domination over local governments. Against the backdrop of either competition or coordination between patronal networks in their localities, municipal leaders cherry-pick citizen participation mechanisms as a tactic to sustain their own access to resources and functions of local governments.

This argument is based on an in-depth comparative analysis of patronal network arrangements and the adoption of citizen participation mechanisms in five urban municipalities in Ukraine during 2015–2019: Chernivtsi, Kharkiv, Kropyvnytskyi, Lviv, and Odesa. Fifty-seven interviews with citizen participation experts, local politicians and officials, representatives of civil society and the media, as well as utilization of secondary analytical sources, official government data, and media reports provide a rich basis for an investigation of context-specific choices of municipal leaders that result in varying mechanisms for citizen participation.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Keudel, Oleksandra

Umland, Andreas

Weitere Mitwirkende

Umland, Andreas

Kropp, Sabine

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Verwaltungswissenschaft, Öffentliche Verwaltung
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Kommunal-, Regional-, und Landespolitik

Über Autor(innen)

The author:

Dr. Oleksandra Keudel studied politics and international relations in Kyiv, Gothenburg, and Berlin. She did her doctorate and the post-doc at the Free University of Berlin. Keudel taught at the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy and at the Kyiv School of Economics, and consulted for the Council of Europe and UNESCO.” Her papers have appeared in, among other outlets, East European Politics and Societies: and Cultures, Ukraine-Analysen, East European Politics, and the Freedom House Nations in Transit report.

The author of the foreword:

Dr. Sabine Kropp is Professor of Political Science at the Free University of Berlin.