Rustamjon Urinboyev
Associate professor
Law, Society and Corruption: Lessons from the Central Asian Context
Author
Summary, in English
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.
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.
Department/s
- Department of Sociology of Law
Publishing year
2024-05-31
Language
English
Publication/Series
Law, Justice and Power series
Document type
Book
Publisher
Routledge
Topic
- Law and Society
Keywords
- Corruption
- Law and society
- Post-Soviet
- Uzbekistan
Status
Inpress
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
ISBN/ISSN/Other
- ISBN: 9781138592797