The Russian-Ukrainian Political Divide

Klaus Zimmermann (), Martin Kahanec and Amelie Constant

No 6085, CEPR Discussion Papers from Centre for Economic Policy Research

Abstract: The Orange Revolution unveiled significant political and economic tensions between ethnic Russians and Ukrainians in Ukraine. Whether this divide was caused by purely ethnic differences or by ethnically segregated reform preferences is unknown. Analysis using unique micro data collected prior to the revolution finds that voting preferences for the forces of the forthcoming Orange Revolution were strongly driven by preferences for political and economic reforms, but were also independently significantly affected by ethnicity; namely language and nationality. Russian speakers, as opposed to Ukrainian speakers, were significantly less likely to vote for the Orange Revolution, and nationality had similar effects.

Keywords: Transformation; Voting preferences; Ukraine; Ethnicity; Orange revolution (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D72 J15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007-02
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Journal Article: The Russian-Ukrainian Political Divide (2011)
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