Lineage Associations and Informal Politics: Mapping Leadership in Kyrgyzstan

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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Date published

2018-01

Publisher

Central Eurasian Studies Society

Author(s)

Aksana Ismailbekova

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