Democratization and Electoral Behaviour in Ukraine, 1989–98

Abstract

The preceding five chapters have presented the principal results of this study, but little attempt has yet been made to synthesize them or to interpret their collective import. This chapter will undertake this task by first examining the effect of the individual socio-demographic variables employed in the analyses with reference to the hypotheses set out in Chapter 2, before considering their combined impact on electoral behaviour in Ukraine. In the final section, Ukrainian voting patterns will be placed in the context of electoral behaviour in other ex-communist countries in the aim of distinguishing between those aspects that are common across the region, and those specific to Ukraine.