US democracy assistance programs in Ukraine after the Orange Revolution |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Graduate Program in Neuroscience, University of California, Riverside, CA, 92521, United States;2. Department of Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology, University of California, Riverside, CA, 92521, United States;3. Department of Psychology, University of California, Riverside, CA, 92521, United States;1. Biometris, Department of Mathematical and Statistical Methods, Wageningen University and Research, Wageningen, The Netherlands;2. Farming Systems Ecology, Department of Plant Sciences, Wageningen University and Research, Wageningen, The Netherlands;3. Crop Systems Analysis Group, Department of Plant Sciences, Wageningen University and Research, Wageningen, The Netherlands;4. Institute of Entomology, Jiangxi Agricultural University, Nanchang, China;5. Department of Health and Environmental Sciences, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, Suzhou, China |
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| Abstract: | The 2004 Orange Revolution failed to skyrocket Ukraine into the ranks of consolidated democracies. Some previous research claimed that, in the similar case of post-Rose Revolution Georgia, its vague democratic perspectives can be explained by, among others, a negative impact of politically biased US democracy assistance programs. This article examines five groups of US programs (electoral aid, political party development, legislative strengthening, NGO development and media strengthening) implemented in Ukraine in 2005–2010, and concludes that US diplomatic support for the pro-Western “Orange” leadership did not translate into political bias of US-funded democracy assistance programs. |
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| Keywords: | Democratization Democracy assistance United States Ukraine Orange Revolution |
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