Decentralization Reform in Ukraine: Assessment of the Chosen Transformation Model

Udovychenko, Volodymyr; Melnychuk, Anatoliy; Gnatiuk, Оleksiy; Ostapenko, Pavlo

doi:10.1515/esrp-2017-0002

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“…Etzioni (2001) defines consolidation as a process of change within which communities alter their relationship among themselves and towards the environment and where the application of power is mandatory. The same is correct for the reforms in Latvia and Ukraine where consolidation had initially taken place voluntarily, then on the basis of “Perspective Plan” (Udovychenko, Melnychuk, Gnatiuk, & Ostapenko, 2017; Vanags, 2005). Community consolidation is theoretically interpreted as a complex of procedures or processes aimed at the formation of economically strong and financially stable communities as a result of community consolidation.…”

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The structural changes in Armenian Community budgets within the process of community consolidation

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Muradyan

Yeranosyan

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Regional Science Policy & Practice

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This paper investigates the financial decentralization in the Republic of Armenia (RA) within the context of community consolidation processes that started in RA in 2015. It presents conclusive and empirically tested interpretation of the changes in the own‐sourced revenues of the community budgets due to consolidation processes and assesses the pace and direction of changes in the weight of own‐sourced revenues in the consolidated vs. non‐consolidated community budgets using β‐ and σ‐convergence models. It has examined the data collected from 501 communities in RA from 2015 through 2018. The results of the research pinpoint that the growth pace of own‐sourced revenues is higher in the consolidated communities as compared to non‐consolidated communities. This evidence supports the initial hypothesis specified in the “Concept of community consolidation and formation of intercommunity units” adopted by the Government of RA, that the consolidation of communities will result in expansion of the revenue generation capacity of the newly formed communities, which needs to be disseminated by policy‐makers in non‐consolidated communities to support the even transition process of the further consolidation that will relaunch after the Velvet Revolution of 2018.

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confidence: 92%

The structural changes in Armenian Community budgets within the process of community consolidation

KARAPETYAN

Muradyan

Yeranosyan

et al. 2021

Regional Science Policy & Practice

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“…The inclusion in posts of formal documents and pictures of working meetings without providing emotional background is indicative of the administrative backwardness of regional Ukraine. Although Ukraine is implementing decentralization reforms as part of the process meant to adapt public administration to EU standards [98], these are slow and have not yet had much of an impact on increasing the quality of service for residents [96,99].…”

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City Brand Personality Projected by Municipalities from Central and Eastern Europe Countries—A Comparison of Facebook Usage

Glińska

Rudolf

2019

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City branding is becoming more and more popular, not only as a field of research, but also as a practice of local governments. Municipalities attempt to introduce this concept into their sustainable transformation process, positioning a city among its stakeholders as, for instance, an eco-oriented, innovative, or smart city. An idea that fosters building a strong and consistent city brand is brand personality. The aim of the paper is to diagnose a city’s brand personality dimensions/traits communicated via posts published on official Facebook accounts of cities and to identify differences occurring within this scope between cities of two selected Central and Eastern European countries—Poland and Ukraine. To achieve this aim, the research involved a content analysis of 1700 posts published by 34 municipalities representing regional capital cities of Poland and Ukraine. On the basis of these study results, the authors have supplemented the Aaker (1997) five-dimensional scale of brand personality with the sixth dimension: Prosocial Attitude, which includes cooperative and bureaucratic traits, to better comply with the approach of cities to problems of their inhabitants and their surrounding environment, which is consistent with the idea of sustainability. Furthermore, the fifth trait has been added to characteristics which make up Aaker’s Excitement dimension. Dubbed as patriotic, it refers to the city’s activities related to the local celebration of historical events, indicating national pride and identification with its place of residence. Bureaucratic and patriotic traits were quite frequently observed in posts published on the official Facebook accounts of Ukrainian cities. Moreover, the research proves that in case of Polish cities the dominating brand personality dimensions are Sincerity and Excitement. Ukrainian cities tend to exercise communication based on the Sincerity and Competence dimension.

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“…Currently, the Ukrainian government is implementing a decentralisation reform, which enables, inter alia, the modernisation of administrative divisions. Since the spring of 2015, the existing local urban, township and rural councils have been voluntarily consolidated into new grassroot territorial communities, following official procedures approved by the government (Udovychenko et al, 2017). The next stage of reform deals with the creation of new administrative raions (counties).…”

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Regional identity and the renewal of spatial administrative structures: The case of Podolia, Ukraine

Melnychuk

Gnatiuk

2018

Moravian Geographical Reports

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The relationships between territorial identities and administrative divisions are investigated in this article, in an attempt to reveal the possible role of territorial identity as an instrument for administrative-territorial reform. The study focuses on Podolia-a key Ukrainian geographical region with a long and complicated history. A survey of residents living throughout the region showed that the majority of respondents had developed strong identification with both historical regions and modern administrative units. The close interaction between "old" and "new" identities, however, caused their mutual alterations, especially in changes in the perceived borders of historical regions. This means that the "old" historical identities have strong persistence but simultaneously survive constant transformations, incorporating the so-called "thin" elements, which fits the concept of dynamic regional institutionalisation and the formation of hybrid territorial identities. Consequently, although territorial identity may be used to make administrative territorial units more comprehensible for people, the development of modern administrative units based on hybrid identities, which include both thick and thin elements, may be another feasible solution that involves stakeholders in regional development.

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Decentralization Reform in Ukraine: Assessment of the Chosen Transformation Model

Cited by 20 publications

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The structural changes in Armenian Community budgets within the process of community consolidation

The structural changes in Armenian Community budgets within the process of community consolidation

City Brand Personality Projected by Municipalities from Central and Eastern Europe Countries—A Comparison of Facebook Usage

Regional identity and the renewal of spatial administrative structures: The case of Podolia, Ukraine

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