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1 online resource (338 pages) |
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Table of Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Abbreviations -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- 1. Introduction: Constitutions and Statehoods -- Constitutions and Constitutionalism: the Anglo-Saxon and European Continental Perspectives -- Functions of the Constitution -- Constitution and State Formation -- Plan of the Book -- Notes -- 2. In Search of a Tradition: Discontinuities of Statehood in Ukraine's History -- From Kyiv Rus' to the Hetmanate -- The Ukrainian Revolution -- Ukraine's National 'Awakening' in the Nineteenth Century -- The Ukrainian Revolution, 1917-1921: an Overview |
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The Ukrainian State, 1917-1921 -- The Political Community -- The Institutional Framework -- Institutions at the Centre -- The Territory and Territorial-Administrative Model -- The Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic: 1919-1991 -- The Institutional Framework: the System of Soviets -- The Territorial Changes and Administrative Division -- The Political Community -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 3. Independence Without a Vision: Constitution Making in 1990-1991 -- Ukrainian Society under the Soviet Union: an Overview -- Ukraine on the Eve of Independence -- The Passage to Independence |
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The Limits of Change: Constitutional Debates and Institutional Reforms, 1990-1991 -- The Form of Government -- Socialism in Sovereign Ukraine: Ideology of the New State -- Defining the 'Sovereign People' -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 4. Simulating Reforms Amidst Constitutional Disarray: Ukraine Under Kravchuk's Presidency -- The Political Scene after the Independence -- The National-Democrats -- Centre -- The 'Former 239' and the Left -- Executive-Legislative Relations: from Impasse to Crisis -- The Aggrandisement of the Presidency -- Kravchuk as the Chief Executive -- The Rise of the Prime Minister |
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A Stalemate -- Constitution Drafting, 1992-1993 -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 5. How to Organise the State? Constitutional Debates After the 1994 Elections -- The 1994 Parliamentary and Presidential Elections -- The New Parliament: an Undecided Balance -- The New President: the Eclectic Electoral Platform -- Defining Ukrainian Statehood: the Constitutional Issues and Preferences -- The Form of Government -- The Left: Norodovladia -- The National-Democrats: away from the Soviets -- The President: in Pursuit of Executive Powers -- The Territorial Framework of the State |
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Federalism versus Unitary Models -- Federalism -- Unitarism -- Crimea -- The Unitary Model: 'Reformers', 'Restorationists' and Decentralisation -- Regional Units -- The Role and Powers of the Regional Self-governing Bodies -- Representation of Regions at the Centre -- Defining the 'Political Community' -- The National-Democrats: the 'Ukrainian People' -- The Left: 'the People of Ukraine' -- The Parliamentary Centre and the President -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 6. The Passage of the Constitution: Process, Actors, and Strategies -- From a 'Little' to a 'Big' Constitution |
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Print version record |
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Constitutional law -- Ukraine
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Constitutional history -- Ukraine
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Constitutional history
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Constitutional law
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Politics and government
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Ukraine -- Politics and government -- 1991-2014
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Ukraine
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9789639241244 |
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9639241245 |
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