Viktor Pashchenko
Viktor Pashchenko is an Associate Professor of the Nizhyn Gogol State University since 2015. He defended his thesis on civil society in Ukraine at I.F. Kuras Institute of Political and Ethnic Studies of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine in 2005. His research interests include the transformation of the party system and development of civil society in Ukraine. He cooperates with political parties as political consultant, and is engaged in strategic planning, public opinion research, and media monitoring. In 2016, he co-founded the non-governmental organisation “Pridneprovsk International Research and Cooperation Centre” and is currently serving as vice president being responsible for research of the current political process and public opinion. At ZOiS he belongs to the team of Ukrainian researchers collaborating on the project on local politics in Ukraine.