Oleksandra Keudel

• Doctor of Philosophy
• Associate Professor at Kyiv School of Economics

In March 2014, the Ukrainian Autonomous Republic of Crimea was annexed by Russia. Soon afterward, Russia-backed separatists took control of several regions within the Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts in the East of Ukraine, thereby prompting the Ukrainian government to launch the so-called Anti-Terrorist Operation (ATO) against the insurgents. Against t...

The importance of political will to bring about institutional reform to reduce corruption is universally recognized but little is known about when and how it emerges. This paper offers a unique examination of local settings which exhibit positive change in terms of anti-corruption political will. We first offer a definition of political will suited...

Die Ukraine hat während der großangelegten russischen Invasion seit dem 24. Februar 2022 eine bemerkenswerte Widerstandsfähigkeit bewiesen. Diese bezeichnen wir als „demokratische Resilienz“, weil sie von demokratischen Mechanismen unterstützt wurde. Diese drückt sich nicht nur im Engagement der ukrainischen Bürger:innen aus, die der Invasion auf v...

Public choice scholars have long argued that the decentralisation of governance has substantial benefits, though the specific context is necessary to understand why and how it works well. This article provides an Ostromian analysis of decentralised governance in Ukraine based on a wartime survey of 204 Ukrainian local authorities (LAs), in-depth in...

The COVID-19 pandemic has affected all domains of human life, including the economic and social fabric of societies. One of the central strategies for managing public health throughout the pandemic has been through persuasive messaging and collective behaviour change. To help scholars better understand the social and moral psychology behind public...

At the beginning of 2020, COVID-19 became a global problem. Despite all the efforts to emphasize the relevance of preventive measures, not everyone adhered to them. Thus, learning more about the characteristics determining attitudinal and behavioral responses to the pandemic is crucial to improving future interventions. In this study, we applied ma...

The COVID-19 pandemic has affected all domains of human life, including the economic and social fabric of societies. One of the central strategies for managing public health throughout the pandemic has been through persuasive messaging and collective behavior change. To help scholars better understand the social and moral psychology behind public h...

Changing collective behaviour and supporting non-pharmaceutical interventions is an important component in mitigating virus transmission during a pandemic. In a large international collaboration (Study 1, N = 49,968 across 67 countries), we investigated self-reported factors associated with public health behaviours (e.g., spatial distancing and str...

What is the importance of linkages between civil society and external actors? In this article we map the landscape of civil society organisations in Belarus and Ukraine linked to the EU or Russia. Compiling an extensive dataset of organisations, we identify which domains they belong to. We find that linkages with Russia prevail in the culture domai...

The case study developed as part of IIEP‐UNESCO Research Project ‘Open Government: Learning From Experience’ analyses how an open government approach is being applied in Ukraine to resolve the critical issue of non‐transparent school financing through parents’ donations that undermines trust among key educational stakeholders. Developed in 2016, th...

This article belongs to the special cluster, “Think Tanks in Central and Eastern Europe”, guest-edited by Katarzyna Jezierska and Serena Giusti. Think tanks outside liberal democracies have distinctive features that go beyond the features of the original concept that emerged within the US context. Departing from this empirical observation, we inves...

Although the idea of open government (OG) is increasingly met with in countries around the world, there has been no systematized overview of OG implementation in the education sector. This study seeks to fill this gap by answering the following question: How does open government affect the education sector? It pays specific attention to the role of...

The EU’s support and that of the West, more broadly, to Ukraine’s territorial integrity, stability and transformation has made a difference, but the results remain fragile, and the country must remain high on EU’s agenda as failure in Ukraine would have negative ramifications across the region. In this context the Ukrainian Think Tanks Liaison Offi...