March 28, 2014
ICP Faculty, Shairbek Juraev, Alexander Pugachev, Azamat Temirkulov, Medet Tiulegenov, and Bermet Tursunkulova published a new article "State, regime, and government in the Kyrgyz Republic (1991–2010): disaggregating a relationship".
This article explores how differentiating between the concepts of state, regime, and government adds analytical purchase to our understanding of post-independent politics in the ex-Soviet Kyrgyz Republic. By looking at the ways in which the government, regime, and state interact, it aims to strengthen existing understandings of why early liberalisation was thwarted in this republic, presidential rule proved twice difficult to maintain, and why the republic continues to face an unaltered fragile balance between how power is divided and how it is infrastructurally and coercively exercised.
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