‘Vigilante Shows’ and Law Enforcement in Russia

Favarel‐Garrigues, Gilles

doi:10.1080/09668136.2020.1862061

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“…(1) Law as an expression of the will of an authoritarian regime. This research strand encompasses studies that view the law as a means of political domination by the authoritarian regime, highlighting the regime's full control over the enactment of central laws and regulations in areas that are considered pivotal to maintaining control over the state and society (Bogdanova 2018, Kovács and Scheppele 2018, Şerban 2018, Favarel-Garrigues 2021, Marat and Sutton 2021. Marat and Sutton (2021) showed how the authoritarian governments of Ukraine, Kyrgyzstan, and Kazakhstan have implemented rules to create "smart cities" and "safe society" in a way that allows them to increase their authoritarian approach to governance, thus developing a version of "virtual authoritarianism."…”

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Navigating the Legal Uncertainty and Informality in Authoritarian Regimes: Legal Culture, Governance and Business Environment in Uzbekistan

Urinboyev,

Dogan

2024

Cent. Asian Aff.

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Academic debates on law and society relations in authoritarian regimes continue to revolve around issues of the dysfunctional legal system, corruption and informality, clientelistic legal culture, and how the authoritarian regimes in this region deploy law as a means for suppressing dissent. However, in this article, we argue that the legal landscape of authoritarian regimes should not be viewed from the “black-and-white” perspective. Rather, there is a need for a comprehensive account of how the state law and non-state forms of normative ordering engage in mutually transforming interactions and thereby shape the legal landscape of authoritarian regimes. By examining the law as a social field and legally plural phenomenon, our aim in this paper is to contribute, both empirically and theoretically, to scholarly debates on the role of law in authoritarian regimes by showing that the law is not merely a tool of authoritarian control and repression but various social groups and actors can also harness it for their own purposes depending on the context, time, location, opportunity and situation. These processes will be investigated by presenting ethnographic case studies from Uzbekistan, an archetypal authoritarian regime in Central Asia.

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