Wilson Center Experts
Oleksandr Fisun
Regional Exchange Grant
Kennan Institute
Expertise:
Russia and Eurasia
; Ukraine
Affiliation:
Associate Professor, Department of Political Science and Philosophy, Kharkiv National University
Wilson Center Project(s):
The Puzzle of the Post-Soviet Democracies: Neo-Patrimonial Interpretations
Term:
Mar 01, 2001
Aug 01, 2001
Project Summary
research hypothesis: the process of political modernization and transition to democracy in the post-Soviet countries leads to establishing and institutionalizing of the new peculiar form of political regimes, which one may characterize as Neopatrimonialism clientelism; democracy development in Ukraine; comparative politics; democratic transformation