Party Presidentialization in Ukraine
Journal: Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks
Year: 2015

Ukraine is a hybrid regime that has moved along a continuum between democracy and authoritarianism throughout the post-Soviet era. The inherent instability of the Ukrainian regime has been most evidently demonstrated by mass mobilizations against the Kuchma regime in the Orange Revolution of 2004, and again by the widespread protests and violent events that led to the fall of the President Yanukovych regime in 2014 and the subsequent annexation of Crimea by Russian military troops.1KeywordsPrime