ABSTRACT
A principle aim of studying internal parliamentary development in Ukraine is to
identify not only the extent and meaning of institutional change, but also to
explain the process. As argued in Chapter 1, institutional change is caused by a
combination of exogenous and endogenous factors. However, in practice, the
division between them is not always clear-cut. In order to manage analytically
the complex intermeshing of different levels of factors driving change and an
assessment of the extent and meaning of this change in the empirical analysis to
follow, this chapter will identify the key exogenous changes over time to set the
scene for the later chapters, enabling these factors to be brought into the
empirical analysis as appropriate.
