Download or read book Ukraine s Decentralization Reforms Since 2014 written by and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book OECD Multi level Governance Studies Maintaining the Momentum of Decentralisation in Ukraine written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2018-06-15 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Multi-level Governance Series study focuses on Ukraine’s advances in regional development, territorial reform and decentralisation since 2014. The Government launched a reform to merge local governments and strengthen the decentralisation process, giving additional power and resources...
Download or read book Local Governance and Decentralization Assessment written by United States Agency of International Development and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-03-06 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report is the result of an extensive assessment of the process of proposed decentralization reforms in Ukraine as it relates to the future programming of USAID/Ukraine. Fieldwork for the assessment took place during most of the month of July 2014 and included over 50 semi-structured interviews with key stakeholders in seven cities in addition to seven citizen focus groups conducted in four different cities. The three primary questions that the assessment sought to address are: 1) what is the current operating environment for local governance reforms?; 2) what is the capacity and capacity-building needs of local governments and civil society to implement such reforms and effectively exercise improved governance on the local level?; and 3) what are the existing and planned donor efforts in local governance and decentralization? With regards to the first question, the assessment team found that there exist mixed prospects for decentralization reform. On the one hand, there is widespread public support and political will within the present government for the reform, and many stakeholders view its implementation as an urgent priority to move Ukraine towards integration with the European community. On the other hand, vested interests in the present system related to the entrenched patron-client nature of politics in Ukraine threaten to undermine the prospects of meaningful decentralization that may cut-off existing avenues for rent-seeking on the national-level. Additionally, while there appears to be political will at high levels of governance, including President Poroshenko, many experts and political actors have yet to accept the present formulation of the reform more due to issues related to political competition at the national level than to the reform's role in empowering local governments. In particular, many of the national-level political actors are wary that decentralization reform proposed by the presidency will serve to strengthen the president vis-à-vis the parliament and cabinet of ministers. As a result, most of the parties in parliament did not support the version of the reform presented by the presidency over the summer. At present, the implementation of reform has been delayed at least until a new parliament can be elected in late October 2014. These elections could either provide a better or worse environment for adopting legislation needed for the decentralization reform depending upon the configuration of political forces it creates. In general, it is likely that the realization of reforms will require negotiation on various points in the proposed plan for decentralization. In addition to the question of whether national oversight of local governments will be performed by the presidency, the cabinet of ministers, or a combination of Ukraine's dual executive power structure, another controversial question that will likely need to be negotiated relates to the consolidations of villages (hromada) and rayons.1 Proposals suggest shrinking the number of hromada from about 15,000 to 1,200 and the number of rayons from about 500 to 100. This would make the proposed empowerment of hromadas in the country much more feasible, ensuring that each had the minimal human capital and technical capacity to implement self-governance. Additionally, this reform would make efforts to support each local government more feasible for the oblast and national level governments (as well as for international donors). However, many on the local level express concern that the proposal to consolidate hromada and rayons would adversely impact their existing access to health care clinics and schools. Furthermore, this reform is also likely to face opposition from many local interest groups, who would potentially lose their positions of power within the present configuration of territorial-administrative units.
Download or read book Maintaining the Momentum of Decentralisation in Ukraine written by Collectif and published by OECD. This book was released on 2018-06-15 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Multi-level Governance Series study focuses on Ukraine’s advances in regional development, territorial reform and decentralisation since 2014. The Government launched a reform to merge local governments and strengthen the decentralisation process, giving additional power and resources to sub-national authorities. In a short period, successful steps have been taken toward achieving municipal mergers and greater fiscal, administrative and political decentralisation, complemented by the State Strategy for Regional Development 2015-2020. The first local elections have been held and more public services are being delivered by certain local authorities. Yet, important challenges remain, ranging from a need to address rising disparities and adjusting multi-level governance practices and territorial structures, to better structuring fiscal decentralisation. This report addresses regional performance and disparities in Ukraine, provides insight into Ukraine’s current territorial reform and approach to decentralisation, explores the impact of fiscal decentralisation measures, and includes a case study of the transport sector. It also provides a set of recommendations for action to support Ukraine in meeting the conditions for successful decentralisation.
Download or read book Maintaining the Momentum of Decentralisation in Ukraine written by Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Multi-level Governance Series study focuses on Ukraine's advances in regional development, territorial reform and decentralisation since 2014. The Government launched a reform to merge local governments and strengthen the decentralisation process, giving additional power and resources to sub-national authorities. In a short period, successful steps have been taken toward achieving municipal mergers and greater fiscal, administrative and political decentralisation, complemented by the State Strategy for Regional Development 2015-2020. The first local elections have been held and more public services are being delivered by certain local authorities. Yet, important challenges remain, ranging from a need to address rising disparities and adjusting multi-level governance practices and territorial structures, to better structuring fiscal decentralisation. This report addresses regional performance and disparities in Ukraine, provides insight into Ukraine's current territorial reform and approach to decentralisation, explores the impact of fiscal decentralisation measures, and includes a case study of the transport sector. It also provides a set of recommendations for action to support Ukraine in meeting the conditions for successful decentralisation.
Download or read book Decentralization Regional Diversity and Conflict written by Hanna Shelest and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-07-28 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited volume focuses on the links between the ongoing crisis in and around Ukraine, regional diversity, and the reform of decentralization. It provides in-depth insights into the historical constitution of regional diversity and the evolution of center-periphery relationships in Ukraine, the legal qualification of the conflict in Eastern Ukraine, and the role of the decentralization reform in promoting conflict resolution, as well as modernization, democratization and European integration of Ukraine. Particular emphasis lies on the securitization of both regional diversity issues and territorial self-government arrangements in terms of Russia’s support for self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics. The volume captures the complexity of contemporary “hybrid” conflicts, involving both internal and external aspects, and the hybridization and securitization of territorial self-governance solutions. It thus provides an important contribution to the debate on territorial self-government and conflict resolution.
Download or read book Ukraine s Decentralization written by Andreas Umland and published by Ibidem Press. This book was released on 2018-02-27 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since Ukraine?s 2013?2014 Revolution of Dignity, Western attention has focused on conflicts related to the country?s?Europeanization.? A parallel major transformation with little relation to the EU?a far-ranging local governance and territorial reform that Ukraine?s first post-Euromaidan government started in 2014?has received much less attention. It redefines not only Ukrainian center-periphery interactions but also state-society as well as government-citizen relations. This volume presents five research papers on Ukraine?s decentralization, focusing on specific problems as well as repercussions of this multifaceted process and covering issues ranging from fiscal governance to party politics.
Download or read book Supporting Political Stability by Strengthening Local Government written by Lily Salloum Lindegaard and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The government that followed the 2014 Maidan revolution in Ukraine has pushed a decentralisation agenda. After decades of Soviet style top-down governance, the status and role of local governments - hromadas - has been pushed to the fore. If implemented successfully, it could increase local development and political engagement, ultimately contributing to increased political stability in Ukraine and Europe. Yet the significance of decentralization reforms is often lost in the noise surrounding Crimea, the secessionist conflict in the east, and the political power struggles in Kiev. For legal reasons, the current decentralisation process is "voluntary", with local communities having to agree to the changes. This has introduced unintended challenges, but also a bottom-up political dynamic to the process. At the same time, uncertainty and opposition to decentralisation reforms remain, perhaps understandable given a rapidly shifting political and legal landscape, the diverse political and personal interests involved, and the fear of political fragmentation that could benefit Russia. Denmark is one of several EU countries supporting the reform process. This DIIS Report focuses in on the processes unfolding in local communities and political arenas, affecting peoples' lives, their hopes, and their relationship to the state from local to national level.
Download or read book Ukraine written by Tetiana Kovalenko (nauki polityczne) and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ukraine decentralization Reform in Ukraine Potential Opportunities and Implications written by Tetiana Kovalenko and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fiscal Decentralization in Ukraine written by Jorge Martinez-Vazquez and published by Nova Science Pub Incorporated. This book was released on 2011 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ukraine in the 1990s needed to reform its intergovernmental finance system both to increase the overall efficiency of the public sector and to strengthen its nascent democracy. A more transparent system of intergovernmental fiscal relations also held the promise of better addressing the different views about the country's future in eastern and western parts of the country. Reluctantly, at the beginning of the transition but at full force in the late 1990s, Ukraine joined many other countries around the world in an effort to redefine its system of intergovernmental fiscal relations. This book discusses the fiscal decentralisation reform in Ukraine by covering both the deep problems and failures that were encountered for almost a decade and the quite spectacular success of the reforms introduced in 2001.
Download or read book Decentralization Reform Its Potential and Opportunities in Ukraine Reliance on Foreign Experience written by Anna Zhernoklieieva and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 13 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The article details the process of decentralization reform in Ukraine and in the Kharkiv region. The methods for solving problems that arise during the reform are determined, through improvement of public information provision and legislative powers. The European experience of implementing this reform and the countries, which can become an example for Ukraine, are analyzed. The process of creation and functioning of the associated territorial communities in Ukraine and the Kharkiv region, their number, efficiency and efficiency are researched. It was revealed that the economic situation will improve and the living standards in the country will become higher due to decentralization. It is revealed that associated territorial communities should be formed with the support of state authorities, providing them with additional financial resources for further development and improvement of intergovernmental relations necessary for the successful implementation of the decentralization reform. A comparative analysis of the number and financing of the associated territorial communities of Ukraine with data on the Kharkiv region was carried out, which revealed that the Kharkiv region is at the sixteenth place in the region ranking for the formation of associated territorial communities. Based on the dynamics of local budgets, it is concluded that their number increases with each passing year, as well as the size of intergovernmental transfers aimed at sustainable development of regions. The ways of familiarizing the population with the education of officials are revealed, with the purpose of effective functioning of the communities, they include: holding forums, seminars, trainings, using different types of communication channels, involving people in projects implementation.
Download or read book Ukrainian Local Governance Prior to Euromaidan written by Valentyna Romanova and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pre-Euromaidan attempts to promote decentralization in Ukraine not only generated valuable evidence-based domestic expertise on how (and how not) to reform center-periphery relations. Russia's exploitation of the structural incoherence of the Ukrainian state also demonstrated that it is dangerous to neglect local governments and to fail to increase their authority. The continuing post-Euromaidan decentralization's remarkable broadness, growing sustainability, and increasing depth increases the likelihood that this reform effort will succeed, unlike previous attempts. This should make Ukraine a more successful democracy in which stronger self-government leads to faster economic development and better public services.
Download or read book Decentralization Reform in Ukraine and European Union s Role in the Process Autonomy and Responsiveness of Local Government written by Yana Brovdiy and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book European Integration and Reform of Decentralization in Ukraine During Martial Law written by Vasyl Marchuk and published by Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften. This book was released on 2024-05-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book examines the problems of reforming local self-government in Ukraine during the martial law period. It discusses the process of decentralization in which political institutions, state administration and public initiatives were involved. It examines the systemic changes in Ukraine under the conditions of Russian aggression and martial law.
Download or read book Electoral Effects of Institutional Reforms written by Anastasiia Vlasenko and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation explores the impact of institutional reforms on electoral and public goods provision outcomes. My first substantive chapter investigates the question of how institutional reforms affect voter mobilization in weekly-institutionalized democracies. I examine the effect of decentralization on turnout and candidate diversity in local elections in Ukraine in 2015-2020. In 2014, the government of Ukraine initiated decentralization reform which allowed village, town, and city councils to gain wider administrative, financial, and fiscal independence. Difference-in-differences estimates show that establishment of ATCs increased turnout and decreased the percentage of successful candidates with higher education. These effects can be explained by the increased interest in local politics and easier access to candidacy due to improved salience of local politics and communities' relative independence from central authorities. Thus, even under weak democratic institutions, decentralization can have immediate effect on voter mobilization through increased perception of local elections as 'meaningful' and, thus, worth time and effort. My second substantive chapter analyses how political and fiscal decentralization affects redistribution in lower-middle income countries. I address this question by studying the effect of decentralization reform on public sector budgetary expenditures in Ukraine in 2015-2020. Starting from 2015, Ukrainian urban territorial communities (TCs) had an opportunity to gain control over local budgetary revenues and expenditures, as well as to gain political independence from the central authorities. Decentralization reform allowed local councils and mayors to determine the level of spending on public goods provision in administrative, law enforcement, business support, environmental protection, infrastructure, education, and welfare sectors. Difference-in-difference analysis shows that decentralization was associated with increased expenditures on welfare and public goods provision. The findings suggest that the electoral pressure of decentralized democratic institutions prompts local authorities to engage in redistributive practices and introduce long-needed changes in management of local budgetary funds. My third substantive chapter studies the impact of organized religion on the consolidation of power in authoritarian regimes. While previous research focused on transit to and survival of democracy, I examine the effect of religious institutions on the consolidation and maintenance of power in an already existing autocracy. I look at the electoral influence of the Orthodox Church in Russia under President Vladimir Putinches While the significance of the Orthodox Church dwindled under the Communist Era due to the repression of religion, it has since regained its presence and has become increasingly salient in society. To examine the consequences of this resurgence, I look at the expansion in the number of churches during the Putin era and its effects on support for the regime. I find that expansion in the number of churches leads to an increase in electoral support for the regime, during both parliamentary and presidential elections. My study thus highlights how non-governmental organizations can help contribute to regime stability.
Download or read book Decentralization and Multilevel Elections in Ukraine written by VALENTYNA. ROMANOVA and published by Ibidem Press. This book was released on 2022-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The post-2014 decentralisation policy is consolidating the centre-periphery relations in Ukraine. Already before 2014, domestic policymakers had been drafting proposals for local amalgamation and an increase of regional authority. Before the 2020 watershed subnational elections, only the local amalgamation policy was completed, however. A significant repercussion of the post-2014 decentralisation reform has been a sharp decrease in congruence of the shares of competing national parties in the parliamentary, regional, and municipal electoral arenas. On the other hand, the party system has, at the municipal level, become less fragmented. Methodologically, the book synthesises conceptual tools and theoretical insights from democratisation studies and the field of territorial politics. It applies the subnational comparative method and illustrates the added value of investigating elections from a multilevel perspective. Romanova's innovative monograph provides an important contribution to the comparative exploration of party system change over time and constitutes a case study of more general patterns of interaction bet-ween municipal decentralisation and electoral competition in democratising states.
