TERRITORY, PLACE, SCALE, AND POLARIZATION OF ELECTORAL PREFERENCES IN UKRAINE, 2002-2014
Journal: Bulletin of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv Geography
Year: 2019

Nationalization of the party system and electorates not obviously results in the territorial homogenization of voting behavior or shifts from the territorial to functional cleavages. Elections outcomes in Ukraine are broadly analyzed from the perspective of regional divisions, compositional effects, cleavages, and polarization of political beliefs. However, we assume that spatiality of electoral behavior in Ukraine is more complex and might be better understood from the perspective of the TPSN f