Constitutional Systems of the Independent Central Asian States
Subtitle: A Contextual Analysis
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9781849462501
Subjects: Commonwealth of independent states; Constitutional law, asia; Former soviet republics, politics and government
Description: This book undertakes the first comparative constitutional analysis of the Kyrgyz Republic and Republics of Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and Tajikistan in their cultural, historical, political, economic and social context. The enquiry probes the regional patterns of neo-Sovietism, plebiscitary elections, weak courts and parliaments, crony capitalism, and constraints on association, as well as the counter-tendencies that strengthen democracy, rights protection and pluralism. It reveals the Central Asian experience to be emblematic of the principal issues and tensions facing contemporary constitutional systems everywhere.