TY - JOUR
T1 - Voting, identity and security threats in Ukraine
T2 - Who supports the Radical "Freedom" Party?
AU - Bustikova-Siroky, Lenka
N1 - Funding Information:
Svoboda also benefited due to the support from V. Yushchenko and hostility toward Y. Tymoshenko/BYuT. The author would like to thank an anonymous referee for this point.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 The Regents of the University of California.
PY - 2015/6
Y1 - 2015/6
N2 - This article investigates voters and sympathizers of Ukraine's radical right party, Svoboda. Using an original survey conducted in 2010, it shows that support for Svoboda was rooted less in extreme levels of xenophobia vis-à-vis Russians, and more in concerns about the support that the Russian minority receives from the state, fear of losing Ukrainian sovereignty, and economic anxiety. In contrast to the conventional view, the analysis suggests that support for Svoboda was not a function of inter-group ethnic hostilities; instead, it originated in perceived threats and anxieties about the character of the Ukrainian state.
AB - This article investigates voters and sympathizers of Ukraine's radical right party, Svoboda. Using an original survey conducted in 2010, it shows that support for Svoboda was rooted less in extreme levels of xenophobia vis-à-vis Russians, and more in concerns about the support that the Russian minority receives from the state, fear of losing Ukrainian sovereignty, and economic anxiety. In contrast to the conventional view, the analysis suggests that support for Svoboda was not a function of inter-group ethnic hostilities; instead, it originated in perceived threats and anxieties about the character of the Ukrainian state.
KW - Ethnic minorities
KW - Radical right parties
KW - Svoboda party
KW - Ukraine
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U2 - 10.1016/j.postcomstud.2015.06.011
DO - 10.1016/j.postcomstud.2015.06.011
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84943665085
VL - 48
SP - 239
EP - 256
JO - Studies in Comparative Communism
JF - Studies in Comparative Communism
SN - 0967-067X
IS - 2-3
ER -