TY - BOOK ID - 136972261 TI - The constitutional systems of the independent Central Asian states : a contextual analysis PY - 2020 SN - 1509909486 1509928456 150990946X 9781509909483 9781509928453 9781509909469 PB - London, England : London, England : Hart Publishing, Bloomsbury Publishing, DB - UniCat KW - Constitutional law KW - Commonwealth of Independent States. KW - Former Soviet republics KW - Politics and government. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:136972261 AB - 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. ER -