Informal sturctures and governance processes in transition economies: The case of Uzbekistan
- 2011
- p.579-590.
- Jul-Sep
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, some 25 countries experienced a reavolutionary transition from a planned economy to a market-based economy. This affected the very foundations of their political, social, and economic lives. This article concentrates on the dynamics of public governance and argues that informal sturctures, socio-cultural mechanisms, and cultural artifacts allowed governance to fuction in Uzbekistan and filled the emerging vaccum in the areas where formal mechanisms were weakened or non-existent. Using qualitative research techniques and network governance concepts a framework with mechanisms of control, conditons, insitutional forms, and resluting exchange was developed. - Reproduced.