Affiliation:
1. Institute of International Relations and Political Science, Vilnius University, Vokieciu str. 10, LT-01130 Vilnius, Lithuania
Abstract
The 2004 Orange Revolution failed to skyrocket Ukraine into the ranks of consolidated democracies. Some previous research claimed that, in the similar case of post-Rose Revolution Georgia, its vague democratic perspectives can be explained by, among others, a negative impact of politically biased US democracy assistance programs. This article examines five groups of US programs (electoral aid, political party development, legislative strengthening, NGO development and media strengthening) implemented in Ukraine in 2005–2010, and concludes that US diplomatic support for the pro-Western “Orange” leadership did not translate into political bias of US-funded democracy assistance programs.
Publisher
University of California Press
Subject
Sociology and Political Science,Development
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