Cover Osteuropa 2-4/2010

In Osteuropa 2-4/2010

Stable Instability, Dynamic Blockage
Ukraine’s Political System und Its Defects

Ellen Bos


Deutsche Fassung

Abstract

The expectations of radical political and economic change that were connected with the Orange Revolution were not fulfilled. Continuity in personnel and a lack of basic consensus on the political rules of the game are responsible for the blockages, stagnation, and corruption that mark the system.

(Osteuropa 2-4/2010, pp. 77–88)