INSTITUTIONAL CHANGE AND POLITICAL - Power, Perceptions, and Pacts

Klappentext This book examines the diversity of electoral systems in Kazakhstan! Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan. Zusammenfassung The establishment of electoral systems in Kazakhstan! Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan presents both a complex set of empirical puzzles and a theoretical challenge. Why did three states with similar cultural! historical and structural legacies establish such different electoral systems? How did these distinct outcomes result from strikingly similar institutional design processes? Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. The continuity of change: old formulas and new institutions; 2. Explaining institutional design in transitional states: beyond structure versus agency; 3. Sources of continuity: the Soviet legacy in Central Asia; 4. Sources of change: the transitional context in Central Asia; 5. The electoral system in Kyrgyzstan: rise of the regions; 6. The electoral system in Uzbekistan: revenge of the center; 7. The electoral system in Kazakhstan: the center's rise and the regions' revenge; 8. Institutional change through continuity: shifting power and prospects for democracy.

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• Authors: Pauline Jones Luong, Pauline (Yale University Jones Luong, Pauline Jones Luong
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 19.06.2008
• EAN: 9780521066853
• ISBN: 978-0-521-06685-3
• No. of pages: 344
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Comparati
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education