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Article · 4 Jan 2018

Lineage Associations and Informal Politics: Mapping Leadership in Kyrgyzstan

by Aksana Ismailbekova · Published by Central Eurasian Studies Society

This article results from the project on Informal governance and corruption - Transcending the Principal Agent and Collective Action Paradigms, funded by the British Academy-DFID Anti-Corruption Evidence (ACE) programme.

The author’s aim in this project was to explore local patterns of informality in Kyrgyzstan in order to understand how relations of power and influence are organised in daily life.

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