Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Table of Contents v
3. Chronology of Modern Ukraine (1922–2022) vii
4. Preface xi
5. I. Ukraine’s Patronal Democracy: Actors, Processes, and Social Roots
6. Ukrainian Regime Cycles and the Russian Invasion 3
7. Patronalism and Limited Access Social Order: The Case of Ukraine 55
8. Continuity and Change of the Social Contract in Ukraine: The Case of Contested Anti-Corruption Policies 91
9. Regime Cycles and Neopatrimonialism in Ukraine 119
10. War, De-oligarchization, and the Possibility of Anti-Patronal Transformation in Ukraine 141
11. II. Oligarchic Structures and the War: A Chance for Anti-Patronal Transformation?
12. Ukrainian Oligarchs: The War as a Challenge 169
13. Ukraine’s Energy Sovereignty in Time of War: Russia Lost Influence, but the Oligarchs Did Not 193
14. The Main Driving Forces of De-Patronalization in Ukraine: The Role of Ukrainian Business 221
15. Ukraine’s Criminal Ecosystem and the War: Ukrainian Organized Crime in 2022. Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime (GI-TOC) 263
16. III. The Ukrainian Society: Anti-Patronal Changes in Identity and Activism
17. From Patronalism to Civic Belonging: The Changing Dynamics of the National-Civic Identity in Ukraine 297
18. The Ukrainian Civil Volunteer Movement during Wartime (2014–2022) 331
19. Ukraine’s Religious Landscape: Between Repression and Pluralism 353
20. Transforming Patronal Democracy Bottom-Up: Two Logics of Local Governance in Ukraine 373
21. Contributors 395
22. Index 401