Nothing personal: explaining the rise and decline of political machines in Ukraine
Nothing personal: explaining the rise and decline of political machines in Ukraine
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无关个人：解释乌克兰政治机器的兴衰
DOI：
10.1080/1060586x.2014.920985
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发表时间：
2015
影响因子：
2.2
通讯作者：
Taras Kuzio
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作者：
Serhiy Kudelia;Taras Kuzio
这篇文章是第一次探讨和比较在过去十年中在乌克兰争夺权力的三个主要政治力量之间的政党建设动态-维克托·尤先科的Nasha Ukrayina（我们的乌克兰），尤利娅·季莫申科的Batkivshchyna（祖国）和维克托·亚努科维奇的Partiya Rehioniv（地区党）。我们表明，他们的政治轨迹可以解释为他们的组织结构和党的领导内的资源分配的差异。当一个政党依赖于主要与一个人联系在一起的资源时，它将发展出一个个性化的决策结构，以保护其领导人，而政党的命运将与领导人的受欢迎程度（或缺乏）联系在一起。相比之下，当一个政党平等地依赖来自几个群体的资源时，一种更联合的决策风格就可能出现。文章以乌克兰为例，指出以个人为主导的政党更容易受到背叛，吸收潜在竞争对手的能力也更差。另一方面，联盟领导的政党更有能力在失败中生存下来，保持内部凝聚力，并与志同道合的政党合并。
This article is the first to explore and compare the dynamics of party-building between the three main political forces that competed for power during the last decade in Ukraine – Viktor Yushchenko's Nasha Ukrayina (Our Ukraine), Yulia Tymoshenko's Batkivshchyna (Fatherland), and Viktor Yanukovych's Partiya Rehioniv (Party of Regions). We show that their political trajectories can be explained by differences in their organizational structure and distribution of resources within the party's leadership. When a party depends on resources linked primarily to one individual, it will develop a personalized decision-making structure advantaging its leader, and the party's fortunes will be tied to the popularity (or lack of same) of the leader. By contrast, when a party relies equally on resources from several groups, a more consociational style of decision-making is likely to emerge. Using Ukraine as a case study, the article shows that personality-led parties will be more vulnerable to defections and less capable of absorbing potential competitors. On the other hand, coalition-led parties are better capable of surviving defeats, maintaining internal cohesion, and merging with like-minded parties.