Sustaining Business-State Symbiosis in Times of Political Turmoil: the Case of Ukraine 2007-2018
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Tetiana Kostiuchenko
Tetiana Kostiuchenko is Senior Lecturer in the Sociology Department at Kyiv-Mohyla Academy in Kyiv and an expert in the network analysis application in social research. Since 2011 she has been teaching courses on social research methods and applied social network analysis. She studied political elite networks in Ukraine, Georgia and Lithuania as a part of her dissertation thesis, and during visiting research fellowships supported by DAAD and Erasmus+ at the Friedrich-Schiller University of Jena, and by Carnegie Corporation of New York at the University of Minnesota. Kostiuchenko has published in peer-review journals includingEurope-Asia Studies andHistorical Social Research , and contributed toSAGE Encyclopedia or Social Networks . The recent publication is the chapter on “Power Structures of Policy Networks” (co-authored with Prof. David Knoke) in theHandbook on Political Networks published by Oxford University Press in 2017.
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Inna Melnykovska
Inna Melnykovska is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Central European University (CEU) Budapest. Her expertise is in business elites and business-government relations in Eurasia. In addition, Dr. Melnykovska works on regional economic integration initiatives driven by the EU, Russia and China in Eurasia, as well as on Ukraine’s non-/participation in these integration processes. Her research has been published inJournal of Common Market Studies ,Europe-Asia Studies , andPost-Soviet Affairs , among others. She is currently completing a book titled: Global Money, Local Politics: Big Business, Capital Mobility and the Transformation of Crony Capitalism in Eurasia.
Abstract
How was the business-state symbiosis in Ukraine sustained throughout the political turbulences of the Orange Revolution and the Revolution of Dignity? Using the method of social network analysis (SNA), we demonstrate how the political – formal and informal – ties of Ukrainian big business to the different branches of state power evolved and what models of state-business relations developed during each presidency. The analysis covers the period of 2007-2018 and focuses on the comparison of the relational structures between political and business elites in Ukraine over a decade. We trace the visibility of various business cliques within political institutions during the last 10 years, and track changes in business-state relations through influential persons, positions, groups and network structures.
About the authors
Tetiana Kostiuchenko is Senior Lecturer in the Sociology Department at Kyiv-Mohyla Academy in Kyiv and an expert in the network analysis application in social research. Since 2011 she has been teaching courses on social research methods and applied social network analysis. She studied political elite networks in Ukraine, Georgia and Lithuania as a part of her dissertation thesis, and during visiting research fellowships supported by DAAD and Erasmus+ at the Friedrich-Schiller University of Jena, and by Carnegie Corporation of New York at the University of Minnesota. Kostiuchenko has published in peer-review journals including Europe-Asia Studies and Historical Social Research, and contributed to SAGE Encyclopedia or Social Networks. The recent publication is the chapter on “Power Structures of Policy Networks” (co-authored with Prof. David Knoke) in the Handbook on Political Networks published by Oxford University Press in 2017.
Inna Melnykovska is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Central European University (CEU) Budapest. Her expertise is in business elites and business-government relations in Eurasia. In addition, Dr. Melnykovska works on regional economic integration initiatives driven by the EU, Russia and China in Eurasia, as well as on Ukraine’s non-/participation in these integration processes. Her research has been published in Journal of Common Market Studies, Europe-Asia Studies, and Post-Soviet Affairs, among others. She is currently completing a book titled: Global Money, Local Politics: Big Business, Capital Mobility and the Transformation of Crony Capitalism in Eurasia.
Acknowledgement
The paper contains the authors’ research findings initially presented at the conference “Friends or Foes of Transformation? Economic Elites in Ukraine from Historical and Comparative Perspective” at the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities (KWI), Essen, on July 7-8, 2017, and supplemented with the results of paper discussion from the workshop “The Economic Elites of Ukraine and Central-Eastern Europe: a Comparative Historical Perspective” at Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv, on March 28-29, 2019. The authors appreciate the comments and suggestions to the initial presentation and paper-in-progress expressed by the participants of both events.
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- Friends or Foes of Transformation? Economic Elites in Post-Soviet Ukraine – an Introduction
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- Sustaining Business-State Symbiosis in Times of Political Turmoil: the Case of Ukraine 2007-2018
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Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Abhandlungen
- Friends or Foes of Transformation? Economic Elites in Post-Soviet Ukraine – an Introduction
- Oligarchs in Ukrainian Foreign Policymaking: Examining Influences in Transnational Politics
- Sustaining Business-State Symbiosis in Times of Political Turmoil: the Case of Ukraine 2007-2018
- The Business-superman: Oligarchs Justifying Giving in Post-Soviet Ukraine
- Global Arms Production and Ukraine’s Unpredictable Soviet Inheritance
- Forschungs- und Literaturberichte
- Die Rübenzuckerindustrie im Süd-Westen des Zarenreiches und die neuen Agrareliten
- Necessity or Luxury? Welfare Work in the Company Towns of the Russian Empire
- The Importance of Connections: The Rise of Jewish Business Elites in Galicia
- Handlungsspielräume in der Befehlswirtschaft – Die Hüttenwerke in der Ukraine unter deutscher Besatzung
- Preis für Wirtschaftsgeschichte
- The Political Role of Business Magnates in Competitive Authoritarian Regimes
