ABSTRACT
According to the taxonomy of post-communist regimes provided by Magyar and Madlovics, Ukraine is a patronal democracy 1 which is distinguished from patronal autocracy on the one hand, due to the presence of political competition (albeit among patronal clans, not democratic parties), and from liberal democracy on the other, due to the dominant role still played by patronalism. In this chapter we will analyze the evolution of a patronal democracy from the perspective of its driving forces, using Ukraine as an example.
