Legislative Networks in the Ukrainian Parliament: Will Any Key Players Survive After the Elections?
Thursday 23 October, 2014
12 - 1pm, $0
Columbia University, International Affairs
420 West 118 Street, Room 1219
Please join the Ukrainian Studies Program at the Harriman Institute for a talk by Tetiana Kostiuchenko.
The presentation will include the outcomes of the network study of legislative connections between the Ukrainian MPs of the current and former Parliaments since 2007. The central research questions to be covered are: Who are the influential legislators among the current parliamentarians? Do they have any common past connecting them together? What kind of joint legislative activities did they conduct? Do they meet lustration principles or are they affiliated with the old regime? These questions lead to a debate about the changing structure of the legislative network and possible changes to occur after the pre-term parliamentary elections.
Tetiana Kostiuchenko is Senior Lecturer in the Sociology Department of the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy (Ukraine) and Carnegie Visiting Research Fellow in the Department of Sociology in the University of Minnesota during Fall 2014. Ms. Kostiuchenkos dissertation focuses on the structure and features of the political elite network in Ukraine from 2007 to 2012. She has also studied the role of various social groups in state functioning, and is working on the application of network analysis for studying the interaction of social agents.