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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Constitutional Systems of the Independent Central Asian States: A Contextual Analysis 2017 by Scott Newton
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 first chapter provides a general overview of the diverse and dynamic constitutional landscape across the region. A second chapter examines the Soviet constitutional system in depth as the womb of the Central Asian States. A third chapter completes the general picture by examining the constitutional influences of the ‘new world order’ of globalisation neoliberalism and good governance into which the five states were thrust. The remaining five chapters look in turn at the constitutional context of presidents and governments parliaments and elections courts and rights society and economy and culture and identity. 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.