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Law, Society and Corruption Lessons from the Central Asian Context

By Rustamjon Urinboyev, Måns Svensson Copyright 2025
148 Pages
by Routledge

148 Pages
by Routledge

This book presents new socio-legal perspectives and insights on the social life of corruption and anticorruption in authoritarian regimes. This book takes up the case of Uzbekistan—an authoritarian regime in Central Asia and one of the most corrupt countries in the world according to Transparency International’s Corruption Perceptions Index—and examines the corruption that developed in a... Read more

1: Understanding Corruption in Authoritarian Regimes 2: Political Environment and Governance Trajectories in Uzbekistan 3: Anticorruption Laws, Policies, and Initiatives in Uzbekistan: An Overview of the Legal and Institutional Environment 4: Law, Society, and Corruption in Uzbekistan: A Socio-Legal Analysis of Macro-Level Developments 5: Corruption, Informality, and Coping Strategies in Meso-Level Arenas 6: The Social Life of Corruption in Micro-Level Arenas 7: The Interplay Between Law, Society, and (Anti)corruption in Authoritarian Regimes

Biography

Rustamjon Urinboyev is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology of Law at Lund University, Sweden, Professor in the Department of International Law and Human Rights at Tashkent State University of Law, Uzbekistan, and Adjunct Professor in the Department of Social Sciences, Tashkent State University of Economics, Uzbekistan.

Måns Svensson is Full Professor of Sociology of Law at the School of Education, Humanities and Social Sciences at Halmstad University, Sweden, and President of Jönköping University, Sweden.