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Pauline Jones Luong. Institutional Change and Political Continuity in Post-Soviet Central Asia: Power, Perceptions, and Facts. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. xxi, 320 pp. $60.00.

Pauline Jones Luong. Institutional Change and Political Continuity in Post-Soviet Central Asia:... Pauline Jones Luong. Institutional C h a n g e a n d P o l i t i c a l Continuity in Post-Soviet Central Asia: Power, Perceptions, a n d Facts. N e w York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. xxi, 320 pp. $60.00. This work represents the forty-second publication in the Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics series edited by Margaret Levi of the University of Washington in Seattle. It is the published version of Dr. Luong's Harvard University Ph.D. disser- tation that she finished in 1997, updated on the basis of interviews she conducted in Central Asia in 1999. Luong, who is now an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Yale University, is to be commended for her fastidious research - eighteen months on site in Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, and Kazakhstan (1994-95) - and her assiduously logi- cal analysis of a very intriguing question: why do states, such as these, with "strik- ingly similar" backgrounds end up with such divergent institutions during a transition from a dictatorship to some sort of representative government? Why, for instance, did Kyrgyzia, Uzbekistan, and Kazakhstan (KUK) not recrudesce into their pre-Soviet patterns of widespread ethnic conflict based on historic ties to http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Canadian-American Slavic Studies Brill

Pauline Jones Luong. Institutional Change and Political Continuity in Post-Soviet Central Asia: Power, Perceptions, and Facts. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. xxi, 320 pp. $60.00.

Canadian-American Slavic Studies , Volume 38 (4): 496 – Jan 1, 2004

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© 2004 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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0090-8290
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2210-2396
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10.1163/221023904X00340
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Pauline Jones Luong. Institutional C h a n g e a n d P o l i t i c a l Continuity in Post-Soviet Central Asia: Power, Perceptions, a n d Facts. N e w York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. xxi, 320 pp. $60.00. This work represents the forty-second publication in the Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics series edited by Margaret Levi of the University of Washington in Seattle. It is the published version of Dr. Luong's Harvard University Ph.D. disser- tation that she finished in 1997, updated on the basis of interviews she conducted in Central Asia in 1999. Luong, who is now an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Yale University, is to be commended for her fastidious research - eighteen months on site in Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, and Kazakhstan (1994-95) - and her assiduously logi- cal analysis of a very intriguing question: why do states, such as these, with "strik- ingly similar" backgrounds end up with such divergent institutions during a transition from a dictatorship to some sort of representative government? Why, for instance, did Kyrgyzia, Uzbekistan, and Kazakhstan (KUK) not recrudesce into their pre-Soviet patterns of widespread ethnic conflict based on historic ties to

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