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Shkel S.N.
Political Regimes of the Post-Soviet States of the Central Asia and Caucasus
// SENTENTIA. European Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences.
2014. № 4.
P. 322-330.
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Shkel S.N. Political Regimes of the Post-Soviet States of the Central Asia and Caucasus
Abstract:
The subject of this research is the political regimes of the post-Soviet
states of Central Asia and Caucasus. The author gives an in-depth analysis to
the typology problems of the modern political regimes and the methodological
aspects of measuring the regime dynamics. Special attention is given to the issue
of operationalization of the proposed concepts and review of empirical data,
which can objectively reflect the character of the political regimes. The author
claims that the measurement of these two parameters: level of competition
among the elites and the degree of influence of informal practices within the
political process, represents the most relevant assessment of the regime forms
of the post-Soviet states. A synthesis of two theoretical concepts is used in this
article. It offers the typology of the political regimes, developed upon the electoral
and neopatrimonial approaches. By combining the two basic variables (level of
competition and the autonomy of the elites) six possible regime types are determined:
atomized particularism, sultanism, neopatrimonial authoritarianism,
neopatrimonial polyarchy, institutionalized authoritarianism and institutionalized
polyarchy. For the offered criteria of the assessment of the regimes, the author
formulates a method of operationalization using the data from the electoral
statistics and indexing the levels of corruption. The regime dynamics of the post-
Soviet Turkmenistan is presented in the article as a demonstration of the practical
implementation of the developed typology.
Keywords:
political regime, typology, democracy, authoritarianism, political
process, post-Soviet territory, neopatrimonialism, Central Asia, Caucasus, Turkmenistan.
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