Editing Politics of Ukraine (section)

==Political parties and elections==
{{see also|Political parties in Ukraine|Elections in Ukraine}}

Ukrainian parties tend not to have clear-cut ideologies<ref name="Max Bader Center">[https://books.google.com/books?id=uD-9tyD2KrMC&pg=PA82 Against All Odds:Aiding Political Parties in Georgia and Ukraine] by Max Bader, [[Vossiuspers UvA]], 2010, {{ISBN|978-90-5629-631-5}} (page 82)
</ref> but are incline to centre around [[civilization]]al and [[Geostrategy|geostrategic]] orientations (rather than [[economic]] and [[socio-political]] agendas, as in [[Western world|Western politics]]),<ref name=Umland>[http://www.opendemocracy.net/od-russia/andreas-umland/ukraine-right-wing-politics-is-genie-out-of-bottle Ukraine right-wing politics: is the genie out of the bottle?], [[openDemocracy.net]] (3 January 2011)
</ref> around personalities and business interests.<ref>{{multiref2
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|5=[https://books.google.com/books?id=C8C3xuqd6aMC&pg=PA160 How Ukraine Became a Market Economy and Democracy] by [[Anders Åslund]], [[Peterson Institute for International Economics]], 2009, {{ISBN|978-0-88132-427-3}}
|6=[https://books.google.com/books?id=fHl1Y-OYyMYC&pg=PA146 The Rebirth of Europe] by Elizabeth Pond, [[Brookings Institution Press]], 2002, {{ISBN|978-0-8157-7159-3}} (page 146)
|7=[https://books.google.com/books?id=H23Pv4Ik3vMC&pg=PA383 Communist and Post-Communist Parties in Europe] by [[Uwe Backes]] and [[Patrick Moreau (political scientist)|Patrick Moreau]], [[Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht]], 2008, {{ISBN|978-3-525-36912-8}} (page 383 and 396)
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|10=[http://www.dni.gov/nic/confreports_ukrainechlnge.html Ukraine:Challenges of the Continuing Transition] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110721034823/http://www.dni.gov/nic/confreports_ukrainechlnge.html |date=2011-07-21 }}, [[National Intelligence Council]] (Conference Report August 1999)
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|12=[http://www.kyivpost.com/news/politics/detail/55635/ Former German Ambassador Studemann views superiority of personality factor as fundamental defect of Ukrainian politics], [[Kyiv Post]] (21 December 2009)
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Party membership is lower than 1% of the population eligible to vote (compared to an average of 4.7% in the [[European Union]]).<ref>[http://www.eui.eu/Projects/EUDO-OPPR/Research.aspx Research] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120116021632/http://www.eui.eu/Projects/EUDO-OPPR/Research.aspx|date=2012-01-16}}, [[European Union Democracy Observatory]]</ref><ref>[http://www.cipe.org/essay/Ukraine%20-%20Comprehensive%20partnership%20for%20a%20real%20democracy.pdf Ukraine: Comprehensive Partnership for a Real Democracy], Center for International Private Enterprise, 2010
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[http://www.kyivpost.com/news/nation/detail/112656/ Poll: Ukrainians unhappy with domestic economic situation, their own lives], [[Kyiv Post]] (12 September 2011)
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