Public Law in a Hybrid State : Legal Reform and Global Sociology in Uzbekistan
Thornhill, Chris ; Urinboyev, Rustam LU and Mustafoev, Tolibjon LU
(2026)
- Abstract
- Public Law in a Hybrid State presents a broad sociological analysis of legal developments in contemporary Uzbekistan, using this example to assess why states with some authoritarian features may promote legal reforms and why the modernization of legal institutions may generate benefits for governments. It examines how, alongside constitutional changes, reforms in administrative law play an important role in polities with hybrid constitutions, shaping the architecture of government and constructing procedures to manage exchanges between government and citizens. Placing these reform processes in the longer-term context of postimperial history, it also shows how changes to legal systems acquire distinctive importance in societies with recent... (More)
- Public Law in a Hybrid State presents a broad sociological analysis of legal developments in contemporary Uzbekistan, using this example to assess why states with some authoritarian features may promote legal reforms and why the modernization of legal institutions may generate benefits for governments. It examines how, alongside constitutional changes, reforms in administrative law play an important role in polities with hybrid constitutions, shaping the architecture of government and constructing procedures to manage exchanges between government and citizens. Placing these reform processes in the longer-term context of postimperial history, it also shows how changes to legal systems acquire distinctive importance in societies with recent experiences of decolonization, uncertain sovereignty, and unstable patterns of citizenship. (Less)
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- author
- Thornhill, Chris
; Urinboyev, Rustam
LU
and Mustafoev, Tolibjon
LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2026
- type
- Book/Report
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- Legal reform, global sociology, Uzbekistan, post-Soviet, Public law
- pages
- 228 pages
- publisher
- University of California Press
- external identifiers
-
- scopus:105044081121
- ISBN
- 978-0-520-40227-0
- 978-0-520-40225-6
- 978-0-520-42546-0
- DOI
- 10.1525/luminos.275
- project
- MARS: Non-Western Migration Regimes in a Global Perspective
- Multilevel Orders of Corruption in Central Asia
- Administrative Law Reform and Legal Integration in Hybrid Political Regimes
- Legal Cultures and Business Environments in Central Asia
- The Multilevel Orders of Corruption - Insights from a Post-Soviet Context
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
- id
- 4118808c-87f4-4a42-ba30-9aeacbbf4ee8
- date added to LUP
- 2026-07-07 14:41:16
- date last changed
- 2026-08-31 08:50:25
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keywords = {{Legal reform; global sociology; Uzbekistan; post-Soviet; Public law}},
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title = {{Public Law in a Hybrid State : Legal Reform and Global Sociology in Uzbekistan}},
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