Shifting fortunes: anti-establishment reform parties, the catch-all strategy and the territorial cleavage in Ukraine
Journal: DSpace repository (University of Tartu)
Year: 2020

This project is intended to examine the how can the impact of an electoral cleavage can be reduced in the absence of changes in its socio-structural element as well as in other factors related to electoral competition using the example of the parliamentary elections in Ukraine. The thesis aims to examine the relationship between the use of a catch-all electoral strategy by anti-establishment reform parties and the importance of territorial cleavage in Ukraine during the parliamentary elections i