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Local Meso-/Micro-Level Institutions, Actors, Social Norms, Practices WP3 moves to the everyday arenas of law and order—studying how citizens, entrepreneurs, civil society actors, and low-level officials navigate ethics, legality, respectability, solidarity, and stigma in assessing actions, making claims, and enforcing norms outside formal venues. It probes societal watchdogs, informal mobilizatio
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This page brings together policy briefs produced within POLCA project. The briefs present concise, research-based analysis and policy recommendations on governance, law, and social transformation in Central Asia and related regions.Select a policy brief below to read the full web version or download the PDF.Policy Brief 2 (March 2026)From Service Digitisation to Digital Governance: Lessons from Sc
https://www.norca.lu.se/polca/project/about-project/policy-briefs-polca - 2026-04-17
This page brings together policy briefs produced within MOCCA project. The briefs present concise, research-based analysis and policy recommendations on governance, law, and social transformation in Central Asia and related regions.Select a policy brief below to read the full web version or download the PDF.Policy Brief 1 (March 2026)Strengthening Tax Transparency for Anti-Corruption Reform in Uzb
https://www.norca.lu.se/policy-briefs-mocca - 2026-04-17
https://www.norca.lu.se/policy-breefs-mars - 2026-04-17
The SOCIAL Research Fellows section presents researchers participating in the SOCIAL project through fellowships, secondments, and research exchanges funded under the Horizon Europe and MSCA framework.
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POLCA (The Political Economy of Legal and Governance Reform in Central Asia Project (project number 101228676), funded by the European Commission under Horizon Europe MSCA Staff Exchanges programmeNordic Central Asian Studies Research Environment at the Sociology of Law Department, Lund UniversityAuthor: Deyanira Iskakova, deyanira [dot] iskakova [at] soclaw [dot] lu [dot] se (deyanira[dot]iskakov
https://www.norca.lu.se/polca/project/about-project/policy-briefs-polca/policy-brief-1-march-2026 - 2026-04-17
POLCA (The Political Economy of Legal and Governance Reform in Central Asia Project (project number 101228676), funded by the European Commission under Horizon Europe MSCA Staff Exchanges programme Nordic Central Asian Studies Research Environment at the Sociology of Law Department, Lund UniversityAuthor: Farrukh Khakimov, khakimov [at] strategy [dot] uz (khakimov[at]strategy[dot]uz) Editor: Mame
https://www.norca.lu.se/polca/project/about-project/policy-briefs-polca/policy-brief-2-march-2026 - 2026-04-17
Project Title: MOCCA: Multilevel Orders of Corruption in Central Asia (project number 101085855. Research and staff exchange project funded by the European Commission's HORIZON-MSCA-2021-SE-01-01 programme)Author: Gizem Kapucu, PhD, gizem [dot] kapucu [at] marmara [dot] edu [dot] tr (gizem[dot]kapucu[at]marmara[dot]edu[dot]tr) Editor: Mamed Askerov, mamed [dot] askerov [at] soclaw [dot] lu [dot]
https://www.norca.lu.se/policy-briefs-mocca/policy-brief-1-march-2026 - 2026-04-17
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POLCA: Rethinking law, governance, and development through alternative institutions and norms POLCA is a Marie Skłodowska‑Curie Staff Exchanges programme that tackles a fundamental challenge in global governance: why decades of rule‑of‑law and democratization efforts have so often struggled to deliver in non‑Western contexts. The project’s core premise is that law and governance reforms cannot be
https://www.norca.lu.se/polca/project/about-project - 2026-04-17
From Western‑centric templates to context‑sensitive governance reform POLCA’s aims respond to a widely observed paradox: substantial investments in democratization and rule‑of‑law promotion have not consistently yielded liberal outcomes in post‑socialist and non‑Western contexts. Many societies exhibit hybrid legal landscapes where formal reforms co‑exist with entrenched informal orders and path‑d
https://www.norca.lu.se/polca/project/aims - 2026-04-17
A multi‑level, interdisciplinary toolkit for studying alternative orders POLCA’s methodology integrates theory‑driven design, multi‑level case analysis, and mixed methods to study the interplay of formal and informal orders in non‑Western governance. It synthesizes legal pluralism, socio‑legal theory, political economy, anthropology, and public administration to render authoritarian and hybrid leg
https://www.norca.lu.se/polca/project/methodology - 2026-04-17
Why POLCA—and why now?The wave of democratic optimism that accompanied the end of the Cold War has been tempered by a global expansion of authoritarian rule and hybrid governance forms. In many post‑socialist societies, formal legal transplants and institution‑building have coexisted with persistent informal orders and low trust in state institutions. Mainstream reform strategies, often designed a
https://www.norca.lu.se/polca/project/rationale - 2026-04-17
