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A Carnival of Revolution: Central Europe 1989 by Robert Legvold; Padraic Kenney is a Social Sciences article available to read on EtoBox.
What is A Carnival of Revolution: Central Europe 1989 about?
An intriguing, albeit highly stylized, account of how the electoral systems in three Central Asian states-Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan-came to be. Jones Luong embeds her study in the current dominant discourse of academic comparative politics, focusing on the sources and effects of institutions. She asks how it is that three countries with such similar political legacies, social contexts, and negotiating settings nonetheless produced contrasting electoral arrange ments. In all three, regionalism mattered more to political outcomes than did eth nicity or religion, and in all three the primary protagonists were leaders from both the center and the regions. But it was the different ways that these leaders judged their shifting advantages during
Who reads A Carnival of Revolution: Central Europe 1989?
It is typically read by researchers, students, and practitioners in Social Sciences.
- Author
- Robert Legvold; Padraic Kenney
- Publisher
- JSTOR
- Published
- 2002
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Social Sciences