Understandings of democracy and "good citizenship" in Ukraine: utopia for the people, participation in politics not required

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dc.contributor.authorSzostek, Joanna
dc.contributor.authorOrlova, Dariya
dc.date.accessioned2022-07-25T12:09:07Z
dc.date.available2022-07-25T12:09:07Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.description.abstractThis article investigates and compares how people in diverse peripheral regions of Ukraine understood democracy, their role as citizens in a democracy, and the meaning of "good citizenship" in 2021, the year before Russia’s full-scale invasion. We conduct thematic analysis of focus group discussions to demonstrate gaps and inconsistencies in the understandings of democracy articulated by our participants. We find that a utopian understanding of democracy is common, in which authorities are expected to "listen to the people" and keep them satisfied, but the need for government to manage conflicting interests is not recognized. Understandings of good citizenship are inclusive and pro-social, but mostly detached from institutional politics. We observe similarity across regions in how democracy is understood in the abstract. However, the meaning ascribed to democracy often varied when discussion moved from the abstract to particular country examples – a finding relevant beyond the Ukrainian case, for survey-based research on public understandings of democracy more generally.en_US
dc.identifier.citationSzostek J. Understandings of democracy and "good citizenship" in Ukraine: utopia for the people, participation in politics not required / Joanna Szostek & Dariya Orlova // Post-Soviet Affairs. - 2022. - 18 p. - https://doi.org/10.1080/1060586X.2022.2084280en_US
dc.identifier.issn1060-586X
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1080/1060586X.2022.2084280
dc.identifier.urihttps://ekmair.ukma.edu.ua/handle/123456789/23486
dc.language.isoenuk_UA
dc.relation.sourcePost-Soviet Affairsen_US
dc.statusfirst publisheduk_UA
dc.subjectUkraineen_US
dc.subjectdemocracyen_US
dc.subjectcitizenshipen_US
dc.subjectfocus groupsen_US
dc.subjectpublic opinionen_US
dc.subjectarticleen_US
dc.titleUnderstandings of democracy and "good citizenship" in Ukraine: utopia for the people, participation in politics not requireden_US
dc.typeArticleuk_UA
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