Regime Changes of Post-Soviet States of Central Asia and Caucasus
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political regimes, authoritarianism, polyarchy, the post-Soviet space, Central Asia and the CaucasusAbstract
This article proposes a typology of political regimes, which allows fixing all points of regime transition of post-Soviet countries and measuring the regime dynamics of eight post-Soviet states of Central Asia and the Caucasus. The analysis of post- Soviet political transformations revealed the presence of two major sustainability regime forms (neopatrimonial authoritarianism and neopatrimonial polyarchy), which are analyzed for the cases of modal. These political regimes are characterized by different groups of countries, but its consolidation equally demonstrates the stability and sustainabilityDOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.17072/2218-1067-2015-1-5-23References
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