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- Podolian, Olena, 1983-
(författare)
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The 2014 "Referendum" in Crimea
- 2015
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Ingår i: East European Quarterly. - 0012-8449. ; 43:1, s. 111-128
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Podolian, Olena, 1983-
(författare)
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The Challenge of ‘Stateness’ in Estonia and Ukraine
- 2020
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The aim of this dissertation is to examine the influence of the international actors i.e. the OSCE, Council of Europe, EU and Russia, on policy and legislative adaptation in two post-Soviet countries since 1991. These are Estonia and Ukraine. The central concept analysed in the dissertation is stateness. It is defined following Juan J. Linz and Alfred Stepan (1996) as congruence between the territorial definition and the right of citizenship in the state, which has the monopoly on the legitimate use of force in the territory, and an effective state bureaucracy. For the analysis, certain policy areas are chosen which operationalise the dimensions of stateness: monopoly on the use of force (borders, army and police), state identity (citizenship, national minorities and language), and basic administration (public administration, education and information). In the democratisation and state-building literature, stateness is a neglected concept, as is the international influence on it. Surprisingly so, as it is an important condition for state and regime stability, especially democracy. To address this gap, the dissertation clarifies the definition of the concept of stateness and analyses the international influence on it in the two countries. This dissertation centres on the impact of the international actors as the causal factor in consolidation of stateness. To investigate this, it analyses in a systematic manner the influence of their policy demands and expectations on adaptation (i.e. policy adoption and change) in the policy areas operationalising stateness in Estonia and Ukraine. As part of the analysis, it provides a detailed overview and comparison of the policy- and legislation-making in both countries after their independence in 1991. The method chosen is a cross-case comparison carried out according to a time-periodisation approach. The analysis illustrates the converging yet context-contingent impact of the international actors in the policy areas operationalising stateness. Therefore, the main finding confirms the emerging consensus in the literature that the international actors have an increasing yet differential impact in traditionally domestic policy areas. The dissertation’s contribution is twofold. First is the theoretical and conceptual contribution to state-building in comparative European politics by clarifying the definition of the concept of stateness. Second is the empirical contribution by providing an applicable operationalisation of the concept through policy areas, which permits its empirical analysis.
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- Podolian, Olena, 1983-, et al.
(författare)
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Ukraine : The dynamics of cross-cutting cleavages during quadruple transition
- 2018
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Ingår i: Crises in the Post‐Soviet Space. - London : Routledge. - 9781351234467 - 9780815377245 ; , s. 103-120
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The chapter claims that, while clearly being diverse, Ukraine is not deeply divided between East and West. Our study of the theoretical approaches and empirical evidence demonstrates that ethnicity, language, and political orientations correlate but do not necessarily match and reinforce each other. We find that Ukraine’s regionalised structure of ethnic and linguistic cleavages did not change much until Euromaidan and the outbreak of Russian aggression. However, since then, the use of Ukrainian language has increased across all regions of the country. Moreover, the number of those who identify themselves with Ukraine rather than with the locality or region they live has also increased.
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- Podolian, Olena
(författare)
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Ukraine. What Went Wrong and How to Fix It
- 2016
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Ingår i: Europe-Asia Studies. - : Informa UK Limited. - 0966-8136 .- 1465-3427. ; 68:8, s. 1455-1456
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Recension (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Polanska, Dominika, Docent, 1980-
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Mer demokrati, bättre användbarhet : Aktionsforskning som metod och filosofi
- 2022
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Ingår i: Arbetarhistoria. - : Arbetarrörelsens arkiv och bibliotek. - 0281-7446. ; :181-182
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- What is action research and what are its benefits for social science? How has it developed and who is applying it? How can action research be both a method and a philosophy in research? In this text, the author reflects over her application of the method and what makes it particularly useful and discusses the benefits of collaborative approach to research. The issue is discussed from the point of view of social science research and in the light of a decade of research on and among urban social movements in Sweden and elsewhere. Action research is partly a critique of the view of how knowledge is created and used in the social sciences. It opposes the monopoly of academic institutions over the creation of knowledge and emphasizes that knowledge created in action research has changed the world in more positive ways than research created with conventional methods. The author argues that researchers in the social sciences have a responsibility and obligation to return parts of their research to those they research.
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