Crisis management and adaptation in wartime elections: Ukraine's 2014 snap presidential and parliamentary elections

Herron, Erik S.; Thunberg, Michael E.; Boyko, Nazar

doi:10.1016/j.electstud.2015.07.009

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“…In this paper, we inventoried and assessed the widespread damage to the medical care infrastructure in the Donbas conflict and posit that it challenges both Ukrainian and DNR/LNR governments as they face the daunting task of re-establishing medical care and their legitimacy as a provider of basic social welfare services. We use case studies to illustrate how conflicts on the ground are likely to result in damage to humanitarian infrastructure, further underlining the importance of including a focus on damage to healthcare facilities, schools and election polling places (Herron et al 2015) in assessments of the ongoing war.…”

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An assessment of attributing public healthcare infrastructure damage in the Donbas five years after Euromaidan: implications for Ukrainian state legitimacy

Buckley

Clem

Herron

2019

Eurasian Geography and Economics

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From the onset of the conflict in Eastern Ukraine in 2014, significant damage has been wrought to the public health infrastructure of the Donbas region. To date however, the full extent of that damage which is substantial, has not been documented: attribution of blame for that damage has not been attempted; and the implications for the region's residents in terms of access to clinics and hospitals has been difficult to assess. This paper presents a spatial database of damaged facilities and relates that to the fighting to assess whether the damage incurred was collateral or targeted. The concept of state capacity is used to frame a discussion of what the consequences are for those residents remaining and for the challenges this crisis presents to the legitimacy of the Ukrainian government. ARTICLE HISTORY

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An assessment of attributing public healthcare infrastructure damage in the Donbas five years after Euromaidan: implications for Ukrainian state legitimacy

Buckley

Clem

Herron

2019

Eurasian Geography and Economics

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“…The fact that training is organized for commission members only before the election and the formation of election commissions often does not complete even two weeks before the election, leads to the situation that a large number of employees do not have the opportunity to attend educational training organized for commission members. Such problems exist in almost all countries where the establishment and improvement of the electoral process take place (Herron et al, 2015). As one of the foremost mechanisms for improving elections, training is crucial to organizational performance enhancement (Hall, Quin Monson & Patterson, 2009).…”

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“…Successful work of election administrations depends on the entire army of workers responsible for direct interaction with the population at polling stations (Boyko, Herron & Sverdan, 2014). The effectiveness of the work of the election commissions is of great importance as it determines the level of public confidence in the electoral process as a whole and, even, can have an impact on the election results (Clark & James, 2017;Herron, Thunberg & Boyko, 2015).…”

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Psychological Peculiarities of Styles of Professional Activity and the Level of Stress among Members of Election Commissions in Parliamentary Elections in Ukraine

Lefterov

Ignatieva

Prykhodko

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The results of the empirical study among the members of election commissions (N=112, age: 25−68 years) for Ukrainian parliamentary elections 2019 to study the styles of their professional activity and the level of stress are presented. The most pronounced style of professional activity is “Professional-perfectionist”, which contributes to the high productivity of members of election commissions. The work tasks at a polling station are best fulfilled by the person with a more pronounced style of professional activity “Formalist-bureaucrat”. It is undesirable to involve working at the polling station persons with high rates in the style of the professional activity of “Nihilist”. It has been found that the major psychological difficulties of working in election commissions are due to excessive psycho-emotional and psychophysical overload, to which some members of the commissions are not ready. This overload can cause them to experience certain mental stress, different levels of stress, their manifestation, and consequences. Although the majority of participants demonstrated a high degree of adaptability to stressful workloads, members of commissions should perform their duties at a highly professional level in extremely difficult circumstances, including at night and in a state of intense emotional stress. The results of the research should be taken into account during the organization of the election process and the holding of elections to central and local authorities. To improve it, it is advisable to organize and conduct early training and skills upgrading of members of election commissions. To do this, it is necessary to develop and implement training programs for the development of style peculiarities of professional activity, which will contribute to effective work in the election commission and overcoming psychological difficulties.

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“…14 erik Herron, Michael Thunberg, and Nazar Boyko examined the impact of the conflict both on the challenge of holding the 2014 elections and on the outcomes. 15 Both papers concluded, unsurprisingly, that excluding Crimea and the Donbas would undermine the Party of Regions and those who support closer ties with Russia. The following analysis builds on that work by seeking to quantify the actual impact on the electorate, based on the line of control that has stabilized since 2015, and by exploring the political implications.…”

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Gerrymandering Ukraine? Electoral Consequences of Occupation

D’Anieri

2018

East European Politics and Societies

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The occupation of Crimea and part of the Donbas will prevent roughly 12 percent of Ukrainian voters from participating in elections. These voters voted disproportionately for candidates and parties that supported closer ties with Russia. This article quantifies the changes to the electorate and projects the likely partisan impact. The changes decisively tip the Ukrainian electorate away from the east and south. Candidates and parties can no longer expect to build a national majority primarily in eastern and southern Ukraine, as Viktor Yanukovych did in 2010 and the Party of Regions did in 2012. Anticipating these effects, Ukraine’s government could seek to prolong these voters’ exclusion, while Russia could actually seek to end the occupation to get them re-included. The implication is that various actors could try to “gerrymander” the entire Ukrainian state, a phenomenon that previously has only been explored at the district level, within states. This raises the broader question of how electoral effects shape the many territorial disputes around the world.

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Crisis management and adaptation in wartime elections: Ukraine's 2014 snap presidential and parliamentary elections

Cited by 7 publications

References 13 publications

An assessment of attributing public healthcare infrastructure damage in the Donbas five years after Euromaidan: implications for Ukrainian state legitimacy

An assessment of attributing public healthcare infrastructure damage in the Donbas five years after Euromaidan: implications for Ukrainian state legitimacy

Psychological Peculiarities of Styles of Professional Activity and the Level of Stress among Members of Election Commissions in Parliamentary Elections in Ukraine

Gerrymandering Ukraine? Electoral Consequences of Occupation

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