This chapter is focused on analysing the processes and elements that have shaped the particular neopatrimonial and authoritarian nature of the Uzbek state, from its origins and early consolidation under Karimov to the transformations during Mirziyoyev’s presidency. These factors have predominantly develop...
Tag: AR-Gov Monday Poll Dump Get ready for the mother of all poll dumps: • AK-Sen, Gov PPP: Joe Miller (R) 37%, Scott McAdams (D) 30%, Lisa Murkowski (WI) 30%; Sean Parnell (R-inc) 54%, Ethan Berkowitz (D) 43% • AR-Gov Rasmussen: Mike Beebe (D-inc) 60%, Jim...
3 Low-carbon electricity export rent, 4 Low-carbon energy jobs, 5 Low-carbon distributed energy and the private sector take it in turn to consider the role that low-carbon energy projects may play in offsetting each of these ‘curses’ of hydrocarbon-led development in the Gulf. Section 6 ...
The Lao government responses and strategies to the EU governmentality resulted on the one hand in the Lao state’s governmentality towards domestic CSOs, and in counter-conduct (i.e. a subtle and sly resistance to some aspects of the VPA) on the other. First, by tracing the establishment ...
talking about the subject. This time, he said that he had talked with the President about other jobs, but wouldn’t say whether Obama had asked him to run against Scott Brown. Patrick again said he doesn’t want to run, and added: “I would say no to the president of the United ...
•ME-Gov: We previously mentioned a proposed constitutional amendment in Maine that would require gubernatorial candidates to receive 50% of the vote (a hurdle almost no one has reached in recent decades). That proposal just died in the state Senate, so it’s basically dead for this term....
Surprisingly, Paulhassmelled the glovebelonging to a very different interest group, the neocons. They mistrust Paul’s views on Israel and probably just on the general concept of randomly invading countries and killing people. AR-Gov: That Ipsos poll which showed Blanche Lincoln “only” 14 poin...
• IL-Gov: This is quite the screwup: Green candidate Rich Whitney’s name will appear as “Rich Whitey” on electronic voting machines in nearly two dozen wards in Chicago (half of which are predominantly African-American). And that leads inevitably to the question (to quote the Illinois...
• AL-Gov (Univ. of S. Alabama): Ron Sparks (D) 35%, Robert Bentley (R) 48% • CA-Sen, CA-Gov (Suffolk): Barbara Boxer (D-inc) 52%, Carly Fiorina (R) 43%; Jerry Brown (D) 50%, Meg Whitman (R) 42% (Bonus: Kamala Harris leads Steve Cooley 35-34 in the AG race,...
KY-Sen, LA-02, LA-Sen, Linda McMahon, MA-10, Mark Schauer, MD-01, MI-07, Michael Bennet, Mick Mulvaney, Mike Bloomberg, MN-01, MoveOn, MS-01, NJ-03, NY-02, NY-Gov, PA-08, Peter DeStefano, Raul Grijalva, SC-02, SC-05, SC-Gov, Steve Israel, Travis Childers, TX-17, U...