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Borisov, N.A.
Designing national ideologies. Stability issues of political
regimes (Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan cases).
// Politics and Society.
2013. № 4.
P. 418-427.
URL: https://en.nbpublish.com/library_read_article.php?id=54050
Borisov, N.A. Designing national ideologies. Stability issues of political
regimes (Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan cases).
Abstract:
The article examines the experience of two post-
Soviet countries (Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan), exploring
the main ways of legitimating authority during the process
of forming of national states and solving political stability
issues. The circumstances in which political elites form ideologemes to reinforce the legitimacy of political regimes and
choose the means to spread those igeologemes are reviewed,
as well as the preconditions for success in achieving relative
stability, or failure to produce such legitimacy, resulting in
destruction of the political system. The attention is drawn to
the analysis of techniques, mechanisms and components of
legitimation of political regimes, as well as factors of their
political stability in a near perspective. The author points out
that to legitimate authority during the consolidation process
of a regime, the ruling elites turned to national ideologems as
tools of legitimating in order to justify their claim for dominance.
The lack of significant political rifts and notable actors
of political opposition in Uzbekistan provided the ruling elite
with an opportunity to spread a new set of values, virtually
unhindered by opposition and by the process of democratic
legitimation. In Kyrgyzstan, the attempt to synthesize structural
and ideological legitimation (using archaic national and
cultural concepts) has failed, which lead to severe damage
to the existing legitimacy of elites and to strengthening and
unification of counter elites on the basis of opposition to the
values supported by the existing elites.
Keywords:
Political science, political regime, political stability, ideology, consolidation, legitimacy, identity, rift in society, ruling elite, trust.
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