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Coloured by revolution: the political economy of autocratic stability in Uzbekistan
- DOI:
- 10.1080/13510347.2012.641295
pages 78-97
- Received: 1 Jul 2010
- Accepted: 10 Oct 2011
- Published online: 28 Feb 2012
Abstract
Uzbekistan contains all the ingredients that observers have long argued would lead to not only regime change but civil war: economic, political and religious repression. Despite the presence of these factors, the autocratic regime in Uzbekistan has remained remarkably stable in the face of revolutions in neighbouring countries. This article suggests three complementary reasons why the regime has remained firm as others crumbled around it, including relatively strong economic performance, state capacity to repress revolutionary aspirations and government co-optation of local institutions. Understanding autocratic stability requires that we move beyond the ‘agency-structure’ debates that pervade the literature on post-communist institutional development toward a more encompassing explanation that recognizes how institutional and structural factors both liberate and constrain individual choices.
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- Received: 1 Jul 2010
- Accepted: 10 Oct 2011
- Published online: 28 Feb 2012
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- a Graduate School of Public and International Affairs , University of Pittsburgh , PA , USA
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