By Michael S. Rozeff
I’ll be extracting some quotes from an article published in 1995 titled “Public support for the devolution of power in Ukraine: Regional patterns.” Written by Vicki Hesli, now a professor of political science at the University of Iowa, it appeared in a refereed academic journal, Europe-Asia Studies, vol. 47, No. 1, 1995, 91-121. I’ll mainly be drawing conclusions from the article’s content.
Hesli writes “The issue of jurisdictional division of decision-making authority between central and regional governments is one of the basic constitutional questions facing new states.” This is true. The 13 colonies faced this issue when creating the U.S. government, and it faced it again in 1860 when southern states seceded from the Union. When the Ukraine became independent over the period 1991-1996, it faced this basic constitutional question.
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