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This talk will examine why and how ambitious political and governance reforms play out in authoritarian regimes during the times of transition, when the new regime consolidates through popular policies (such as anti-poverty distribution) and calculated decentralization, devolution of central power, and local governance empowerment. Drawing on original field work, novel statistical data and experiments from across Eurasia and, especially Uzbekistan, Dr. Redjaboev shows how both elite political administrators and citizens interact with, shape, and benefit or lose from such reforms.
He will then discuss how these findings inform the way domestic and international stakeholders can engage with public service reforms and government services in countries with non-democratic regimes, which represent more than half of political regimes globally.
Dr. Redjaboev's research focuses on authoritarian governance and institutions, reforms, gender and development, with empirical focus on post-communist Eurasia and Central Asia. His most research is based on fieldwork, surveys and field experiments in Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Ukraine and Uzbekistan.