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Critical election or frozen cleavages? How voters chose parties in the 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election

Abstract:: Ukraine's 2014 parliamentary election, which took place in the aftermath of the Maidan revolution of February 2014 and at the height of war in the East of the country, appeared to produce significant party political realignment. In particular, support for parties that had represented the Russian element of the ethno-linguistic/geo-political cleavage that had dominated electoral competition in Ukraine since independence collapsed. The paper considers whether 2014 was a ‘critical’ or ‘realigning’ election for Ukraine. Our argument is that the 2014 election lacked the conditions that critical elections theory posits as necessary and that, on the contrary, there are strong theoretical reasons to expect cleavage stability in these volatile electoral circumstances. We offer evidence for this continuity drawn from surveys undertaken among Ukrainian voters from 1995 to 2014.

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Chaisty, P., & Whitefield, S. (2018). Critical election or frozen cleavages? How voters chose parties in the 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election. Electoral Studies, 56, 158–169.

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Chaisty, P., and S. Whitefield. “Critical Election or Frozen Cleavages? How Voters Chose Parties in the 2014 Ukrainian Parliamentary Election.” Electoral Studies, vol. 56, Elsevier, 2018, pp. 158–69.

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Chaisty, P, and S Whitefield. 2018. “Critical Election or Frozen Cleavages? How Voters Chose Parties in the 2014 Ukrainian Parliamentary Election.” Electoral Studies 56: 158–69.
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Publisher copy:: 10.1016/j.electstud.2018.08.009

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+ Chaisty, P More by this author

Institution:: University of Oxford
Division:: SSD
Department:: Politics & Int Relations
Oxford college:: St Antony's College
Role:: Author
ORCID:: 0000-0002-9658-2097

+ Whitefield, S More by this author

Institution:: University of Oxford
Department:: Politics & Int Relations
Role:: Author

+ John Fell Fund More from this funder

Grant:: 133/008

Publisher:: Elsevier
Journal:: Electoral Studies More from this journal
Volume:: 56
Pages:: 158-169
Publication date:: 2018-08-18
Acceptance date:: 2018-08-14
DOI:: 10.1016/j.electstud.2018.08.009
EISSN:: 1873-6890
ISSN:: 0261-3794

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Local pid:: pubs:912016
Source identifiers:: 912016
Deposit date:: 2018-09-05

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Copyright holder:: Elsevier
Copyright date:: 2018
Notes:: © 2018 Elsevier Ltd. This is the accepted manuscript version of the article. The final version is available online from Elsevier at: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.electstud.2018.08.009

Licence:: CC Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives (CC BY-NC-ND)

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