Ukraine’s Emergent Collaborative Democracy And How The Eu Can Support It: Learning From The Local Level Of Governance

Despite Russia’s war of aggression, Ukraine has preserved its statehood. The emergent collaborative trends in Ukraine’s young democracy have contributed to such resilience. The four key mechanisms – public engagement, horizontal and vertical coordination in multi-level governance system, and digital technologies – have been fundamental to the emerging trend towards collaborative democracy and its contribution to resilience in the face of multiple war-related crises at the local level. This chapter is based on the findings of two surveys of governance practices of local authorities before and after the full-scale invasion and insights from the study of local anti-corruption policies in the period 2015–2021.