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Law, Society and Corruption: Lessons from the Central Asian Context

Urinboyev, Rustam LU and Svensson, Måns LU (2024) In Law, Justice and Power series
Abstract
This book presents new socio-legal perspectives and insights on the social life of corruption and anti-corruption in authoritarian regimes.

This book takes up the case of Uzbekistan—an authoritarian regime in Central Asia and one of the most corrupt countries in the world according to Transparency International’s Corruption Perceptions Index—and examines the corruption that developed in a tightly closed authoritarian regime permeated by a large-scale shadow economy, a weak rule of law, and a collectivist legal culture. Building on socio-legal frameworks of legal compliance, living law and legal pluralism, the central argument of the book is that the roles, meanings, and logics of corruption are fluid, and depend on a myriad of... (More)
This book presents new socio-legal perspectives and insights on the social life of corruption and anti-corruption in authoritarian regimes.

This book takes up the case of Uzbekistan—an authoritarian regime in Central Asia and one of the most corrupt countries in the world according to Transparency International’s Corruption Perceptions Index—and examines the corruption that developed in a tightly closed authoritarian regime permeated by a large-scale shadow economy, a weak rule of law, and a collectivist legal culture. Building on socio-legal frameworks of legal compliance, living law and legal pluralism, the central argument of the book is that the roles, meanings, and logics of corruption are fluid, and depend on a myriad of structural variables, and contextual and situational factors.

This book will be of value to researchers, academics and students in the fields of sociology of law, legal anthropology and Central Asian studies, especially those with an interest on the intersection of law, society and corruption in authoritarian regime contexts. (Less)
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Corruption, Law and society, Post-Soviet, Uzbekistan
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Law, Justice and Power series
pages
148 pages
publisher
Routledge
external identifiers
  • scopus:85198280184
ISBN
9780429952968
9781138592797
DOI
10.4324/9780429952968
project
Legal Cultures and Business Environments in Central Asia
Multilevel Orders of Corruption in Central Asia
The Multilevel Orders of Corruption - Insights from a Post-Soviet Context
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English
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yes
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319ff148-1ebf-4c1a-8ed0-94ab3b83c21b
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  series       = {{Law, Justice and Power series}},
  title        = {{Law, Society and Corruption: Lessons from the Central Asian Context}},
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