I gränslandet till demokrati och europa - En studie om Ukrainas förvaltning

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After the orange revolution in Ukraine, hope was given to achieve fully democracy in the whole society. However, this has not been the outcome; the Ukrainian public administration still has problems to deliver what the society demands. By answering the question: ?Which problems have the public administration to become democratic and how can we explain them??, we analyze the failures within the public administration to accomplish democratic procedures. The empirical material in this thesis is mainly obtained from interviews and research during a field study in Ukraine. The problems for the civil servants in Ukraine to act as guardians of the society are strongly connected to an inadequate professional knowledge. Also, unclear legislation, lack of tools holding the servants accountable and low level of trust, are problems which lead to corruption and to the democratic deficit. The cause of many of these problems can be derived from the theory of path dependency. One condition for Ukraine to dissolve the negative pattern is that external actors from Europe force and influence the country to adopt democratic values and procedures through convergence and conditionality. Thus, we have answered the second question i...