de-oligarchisation

These questions shift the perspective from destruction ("fight" against corruption, de-oligarchisation, punishment and control) to construction (institutional design, generation and communication of interests, raising bottom-up social movements and political parties, creating open-access order). They can open new discussions, generate new ideas and disrupt the hopeless discourse of political corruption in Ukraine.

2018, Oksana Huss, “Corruption, Crisis, and Change: Use and Misuse of an Empty Signifier”, in Erica Resende, Dovilė Budrytė, Didiem Buhari-Gulmez, editors, Crisis & Change in Post-Cold War Global Politics: Ukraine in a Comparative Perspective, Cham, Zug, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, Springer Nature, →DOI, →ISBN, part II (Crisis and Social Change: Ukraine in Comparative Perspective), page 122

De-oligarchisation depends on the de-politicisation of specific state institutions, the effective fighting against corruption, and the de-monopolisation of the media and key economic sectors. This will determine the success of the modernisation and building-up of democratic institutions in these countries.

2018, Wojciech Konończuk, Denis Cenușă, Kornely Kakachia, “Oligarchs as Key Obstacles to Reform”, in Michael Emerson, Denis Cenușă, Tamara Kovziridze, Veronika Movchan, editors, The Struggle for Good Governance in Eastern Europe, London: Rowman & Littlefield International [for the Centre for European Policy Studies], →ISBN, page 84