Values, Programmes and Actions: examining the Ideologies and legislative Positions of Ukrainian Political Parties
Values, Programmes and Actions: examining the Ideologies and legislative Positions of Ukrainian Political Parties

Author(s): Denys Rybachok
Subject(s): Civil Society, Government/Political systems, Electoral systems
Published by: EECMD - Eastern European Centre for Multiparty Democracy
Keywords: party system in Ukraine;
Summary/Abstract: One of the hallmarks of the party system in Ukraine is quasi-absence of well-defined ideological platforms of parties. In Ukraine political parties often are artificial projects created for specific elections with the main purpose of avocation the interests of those oligarchic groups that are funding them. In this situation, ideology plays a minor role. In 2019, presidential and parliamentary elections will take place in Ukraine. The voting will take place in difficult socio-economic conditions and in conditions of armed con¬flict in the East of the country. The key issue in the elections is the implementation of public reforms. Ukraine is a parliamentary-presidential republic, so it is expected that the political parties are to offer the society their version of modernization. In this paper, the ideological platforms of the most ranking Ukrainian parties are examined through the prism of their political programmes’ analysis on the eve of elections. The party pro-grammes have been studied from three perspectives: domestic, international and public. The paper also proposes mechanisms for improving the quality of party programmes.

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