Expanding state authority, cutting back local services: decentralization and its contradictions in Uzbekistan1

Noori, Neema

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“…In Kazakhstan, as Wilson et al (2002) found, quality of services provided by local government in general do not meet the standards desired by service users, as 51 per cent of respondents stated that they are not satisfied with the quality of services provided by local government. Another pertinent literature is Neema Noori's [80] study of decentralization processes in Uzbekistan. As Noori argues, decentralization had a negative impact on public service delivery in Uzbekistan, as it was not accompanied by corresponding resources and consequently worsened the quality and accessibility of public services.…”

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Local Government Capacity in Post-Soviet Central Asia

Urinboyev

2015

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Local Government Capacity in Post-Soviet Central Asia

Urinboyev

2015

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“…98 These money transfers have been crucial to sustaining consumption particularly in Uzbekistan's rural areas, amounting to about 10 percent of overall income in the two poorest quintile households and providing especially for food and housing, along with the purchase of consumer durables. 99 This is particularly true given that, while some targeted assistance for the poorest strata of the population has been provided through the revival of an old institution like the mahalla ("neighborhood"), 100 as well as specific schemes such as the Low Income Allowance, these expenditures "have fallen significantly since the 1990s, and were only 0.1 percent of GDP in 2009," 101 a figure that roughly remains the same today. 102…”

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Rise of the Surplus Population? Land Decollectivization, Class Stratification, and Labor Precarization in Uzbekistan

Galdini

2023

Inter. Labor Working-Class Hist.

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This article identifies decollectivization as one of the central policies through which the so-called “Uzbek model” mediated independent Uzbekistan's incorporation into the global economy as a cotton exporter. As such, it problematizes the way in which the dominant literature on transition framed the country's independent history since 1991 as a “paradox” of no transition and transformation. Since it theorizes the former as the application of privatization, liberalization, and macroeconomic stabilization, the literature cannot explain why, absent this standard reform package, Uzbekistan still underwent a momentous transformation from full employment and low migration to mass informalization of economic activity and rural outmigration. Instead, I contend, decollectivization entailed a process of mass expropriation of the rural population from the land—primitive accumulation in Marxian terminology—in order to put it to production for capital accumulation. As such, land use was shifted from the collective reproduction of the rural population during Soviet times to the rent-subsidization of capital accumulation after independence, particularly via import-substitution industrialization. The result has been the class stratification of Uzbek society, most evident in the rise of a vast relative surplus population of landless peasants struggling in the precarious informal economy, including as daily workers and labor migrants.

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“…Thus despite the appearance of plurality — with the government claiming a total of over 5,000 NGOs (ibid.) — the NGO sector has increasingly become an adjunct of the state, with a similar fate having befallen the mahalla community association which is increasingly perceived as a branch of local government (Noori, 2007).…”

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Osama or the Georges: Shifting Threats and State Policy towards Civil Society in Uzbekistan

Stevens

2010

Development and Change

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In examining the relationship between the War on Terror and restrictions on civil society, Uzbekistan is an important case, given its emergence as a key player in the operations in Afghanistan, its own terrorist threat, and its particularly stringent policy towards civil society. This article argues that while the ‘crackdown’ on civil society has followed a similar pattern to that of other countries where civil society is perceived as harbouring a threat, there has been a significant shift since the War on Terror began as to the perceived nature of the threat. At the time of 9/11, the government of Uzbekistan took Islamic terrorism to be the main threat; yet within the space of just over two years a new threat was perceived. Western support for civil society, a concession made to the US‐led coalition in return for support against Islamic terrorism, emerged as an even greater threat to the regime. It is this perceived threat that has primarily driven state policy towards civil society, raising important questions about how democracy promotion can be best taken forward in the post‐9/11 world.

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Expanding state authority, cutting back local services: decentralization and its contradictions in Uzbekistan1

Cited by 9 publications

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Local Government Capacity in Post-Soviet Central Asia

Local Government Capacity in Post-Soviet Central Asia

Rise of the Surplus Population? Land Decollectivization, Class Stratification, and Labor Precarization in Uzbekistan

Osama or the Georges: Shifting Threats and State Policy towards Civil Society in Uzbekistan

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