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Between Street Mobilization and Backroom Dealing: The Power to Prevent Action at the Ukrainian Parliament (an Evidence of the Coleman Index)
Volodymyr Shelukhin * volodymyr.shelukhin1991@gmail.com * ORCID: 0000-0002-8931-8757 * ResearcherID: Z-1537-2019
Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Faculty of Sociology, Department of Social Structures and Social Relations, UKRAINE
Open Journal for Sociological Studies, 2019, 3(2), 37-44 * DOI: https://doi.org/10.32591/coas.ojss.0302.01037s
Online Published Date: 26 September 2019
LICENCE: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
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KEY WORDS: power to prevent action, Coleman index, street protests, backroom dealings, Ukrainian parliament.
ABSTRACT:
Street protest mobilization is one of the most important features of political system in contemporary Ukraine. Why do political parties appeal to streets? When does such activity become most probable? This research article proposes descriptive analysis of dependence between power to prevent action at the legislative body and tendency to be involved in street protest mobilization in the context of parties at the Ukrainian parliament of the 8th convening and street protests in October 2017. The main conclusion is that weakness or absence of power to prevent action at the parliament makes more probable street protest of this political force.
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR:
Volodymyr Shelukhin, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Faculty of Sociology, Department of Social Structures and Social Relations, UKRAINE. E-mail: volodymyr.shelukhin1991@gmail.com.
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