Understanding the Role of Power in Changes to Pastoral Institutions in Kyrgyzstan
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12959872 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ulan Kasymov (0000-0001-5620-1379, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, corresponding author), Andreas Thiel (0000-0003-1290-0375, University of Kassel) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 931-948 |
| Publication date | 2019-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of the Commons (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1875-0281 • E-ISSN: 1875-0281 |
| Publisher | Ubiquity Press, Ltd. (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.5334/ijc.870 |
| OpenAlex | W2982319437 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 16 |
Our article reflects on the Kyrgyz experience of a transformation in pasture use and management, seeking to contribute to the literature on institutional change in post-socialist contexts. We employ the distributional theory of institutional change in order to understand gradual, informal de facto institutional change which emerged because of changes in formal institutions (laws) that changed the bargaining positions of actors involved. The study findings demonstrate the dynamics of change of interrelated formal institutions, power resources, informal institutions, and their distributional consequences. We observe that the enforcement of new pasture legislation introduced in 2009 gradually reducing bargaining asymmetry among actors, in the long run potentially favouring less powerful pasture users, who are herders providing herding services to their community. Evaluating the potential implications of formal institutional change for day-to-day pasture management and informal institutions, we expect changes to contribute to maintenance of pasture health in the medium to long term. However, traditionally powerful actors (individual herders) typically try to resist these changes and the shift to new informal institutions is therefore still highly contested
Bargaining power · Business · Collective action · Common-pool resource · Economics · Enforcement · Geography · Herding · Institutional change · Institutional theory · Normative · Pasture · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Law · Public Administration · Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology · Soviet and Russian History · Ecology
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| Unique citing works | 6 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2024 (5) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |