Decentralization, legitimacy, and democracy in post-Soviet Central Asia

During the 1990s, a conventional wisdom emerged, based on literature going back decades, that political decentralization might be among the most effective forces for democratization. If ordinary people could participate in autonomous local governments, democracy would be built from the ground up, ul...

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Main Author: David Siegel
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2022-01-01
Series:Journal of Eurasian Studies
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/18793665211068525