Perspectives of transformational shifts in Ukraine and Poland through the prism of values survey
Perspectives of transformational shifts in Ukraine and Poland through the prism of values survey

Summary/Abstract: The article is devoted to the Values Survey in Ukraine and Poland. The assessment of economictransformation should be comprehensive and the prism of values might give a deeper insight oncountry’s development. The values are important as in both countries it’s the people who vote andselect the leaders who decide what way to rule the countryWe have selected some of the polls that we think are determining the institutional environmentin Ukraine and for definition of the trajectory of the transformation of the national economy. It shouldbe noted that the results are presented for Ukraine back in 2011, which, in our opinion, makes itpossible to fundamentally assess historical events in Ukraine starting in 2013. For Poland the datacomes from 2012.The research is divided into thematic sections – family, politics, children, upbringing, religion,etc., and respondents are differentiated by sex and age. In all tables the total number of respondentsis 1500 for Ukraine and 966 for Poland.Thus, the prospects for the development of the national economy of Ukraine and Poland areevaluated through the prism of the study of values. The transition from extractive institutions toinclusive ones is complicated by the low level of public confidence in official institutions, the lowinvolvement of the population in the activities of the authorities, political parties, etc. The low levelof financial convergence, together with low confidence in banks, makes it impossible to develop thecountry’s financial system, poses a threat to national economic security, and so on. At the level ofofficial statistics, in our opinion, it is advisable to implement the concept of institutional statistics –the official statistics sector, which explores the “rules of the game”.

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