Navigating the Legal Uncertainty and Informality in Authoritarian Regimes
Legal Culture, Governance and Business Environment in Uzbekistan
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 13063448 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Rustamjon Urinboyev (0000-0001-7226-0483, Lund University, corresponding author), Erhan Dogan (0000-0001-5060-4361, Marmara University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 349-371 |
| Publication date | 2024-04-26 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Central Asian Affairs (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2214-2282 • E-ISSN: 2214-2290 |
| Publisher | Brill (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.30965/22142290-bja10052 |
| OpenAlex | W4396560072 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 20 |
Academic debates on law and society relations in authoritarian regimes continue to revolve around issues of the dysfunctional legal system, corruption and informality, clientelistic legal culture, and how the authoritarian regimes in this region deploy law as a means for suppressing dissent. However, in this article, we argue that the legal landscape of authoritarian regimes should not be viewed from the “black-and-white” perspective. Rather, there is a need for a comprehensive account of how the state law and non-state forms of normative ordering engage in mutually transforming interactions and thereby shape the legal landscape of authoritarian regimes. By examining the law as a social field and legally plural phenomenon, our aim in this paper is to contribute, both empirically and theoretically, to scholarly debates on the role of law in authoritarian regimes by showing that the law is not merely a tool of authoritarian control and repression but various social groups and actors can also harness it for their own purposes depending on the context, time, location, opportunity and situation. These processes will be investigated by presenting ethnographic case studies from Uzbekistan, an archetypal authoritarian regime in Central Asia
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| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |