{"id":774,"date":"1999-06-12T16:12:03","date_gmt":"1999-06-12T23:12:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/political-studies.com\/?p=774"},"modified":"2022-01-22T11:47:47","modified_gmt":"2022-01-22T13:47:47","slug":"presidential-election-as-a-mirror-of-transitional-society-in-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/political-studies.com\/?p=774","title":{"rendered":"Presidential election as a mirror of transitional society in Ukraine."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Electoral  campaigns in transitional societies are important landmarks on the way of entrenchment  and stabilization (or, on the contrary, of degeneration and decline) of newly  constructed political institutions. They reveal achievements of a society and  its non-resolved problems, show the attained level of political democracy,  cultural and moral climate.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>Up to this  time, Ukraine seemed to develop satisfactory in political dimension, despite  its constant economic decline and impoverishment of a large percentage of  people. After independence it successfully overcome some major political crises  showing readiness and ability of different branches of political elite to  compromise and to separate substantial problems from less important. In some of  those political clashes, which ended in sum successfully, President Kuchma was  a major player. He showed himself if not as a convinced democrat, then at least  as a moderate sober-minded politician with a sufficient measure of flexibility  who used his influence in order not to bring debates to their extreme and to  achieve generally acceptable solution. The first political success was, of  course, the democratic way of ahead-of-time resignation of the first President  Leonid Kravchuk and election of Kuchma in 1994. Personal Kuchma&rsquo;s (or his  team&rsquo;s) achievements in this field were Constitutional agreement in 1995 and  adoption of Constitution in 1996. Though in those political battles a kind of  President&rsquo;s judicial nihilism sometimes became visible, in general all went in  the right direction, in a sense that democratic institutions and procedures  were on the march.<\/p>\n<p>The year of  1996 was a turning point in many aspects&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the full article: <a href='http:\/\/political-studies.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1999\/06\/elections.pdf' target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" alt=\"PDF Document\" src=\"http:\/\/political-studies.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/icon_pdf.gif\" title=\"PDF Document\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-25\"><\/a> <a href='http:\/\/political-studies.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1999\/06\/elections.pdf' target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Presidential election as a mirror of transitional society in Ukraine<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Antonina Kolodii<\/strong>. Presidential election as a mirror of transitional society in Ukraine. Presidential campaign in Ukraine, 1999.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[123],"class_list":["post-774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","tag-building-democracy-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/political-studies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/political-studies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/political-studies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/political-studies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/political-studies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=774"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/political-studies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2711,"href":"https:\/\/political-studies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774\/revisions\/2711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/political-studies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/political-studies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/political-studies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}