Publication

Jul 2011

This study looks beyond elections and the formal structure of government to understand how Kyrgyzstan's politics actually have come to work since independence. It concludes that political power in Kyrgyzstan is a battle between personalities, not organized group interests. Elites compete for power not through formal institutional channels, but by means of competing informal patron-client pyramid networks.

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Author Johan Engvall
Series CACI-SRSP Silk Road Papers
Publisher Central Asia-Caucasus Institute and Silk Road Studies Program (CACI-SRSP)
Copyright © 2011 Central Asia-Caucasus Institute & Silk Road Studies Program (CACI-SRSP)
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