Moulding of Ukraine : the Constitutional Politics of State Formation.
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Central European University Press,
2000.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.