Institutional Change and Political Continuity in Post-Soviet Central Asia: Power, Perceptions, and Pacts

Első borító
Cambridge University Press, 2002. ápr. 29. - 320 oldal
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? Explaining these puzzles requires understanding not only the outcome of institutional design but also the intricacies of the process that led to this outcome. Moreover, the transitional context in which these three states designed new electoral rules necessitates an approach that explicitly links process and outcome in a dynamic setting. This book provides such an approach. Finally, it both builds on the key insights of the dominant approaches to explaining institutional origin and change and transcends these approaches by moving beyond the structure versus agency debate.
 

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1 The Continuity of Change
1
2 Explaining Institutional Design in Transitional States
25
3 Sources of Continuity
51
4 Sources of Change
102
5 Establishing an Electoral System in Kyrgyzstan
156
6 Establishing an Electoral System in Uzbekistan
189
7 Establishing an Electoral System in Kazakhstan
213
8 Institutional Change through Continuity
253
Appendix I
280
Appendix II
283
References
295
Index
309
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