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Uzbekistan takes steps towards establishing a welfare state and eradicating poverty: from ‘Iron Feast’ to ‘Iron Notebooks’ Digitalization of the Economy and Prevention of Corruption in Tajikistan "What is the focus of the MOCCA project and how it helps to build capacity”
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Rustamjon Urinboyev Principal Investigator of the project E-mail: rustamjon [dot] urinboyev [at] soclaw [dot] lu [dot] se Postal address: Box 42, 221 00, Lund, Sweden
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The first research stream is on global anti-corruption laws, institutions, indicators, and discourses. The goal of this research stream is to explore the politics, power relations, indicators, and discourses that underlie the global anti-corruption industry and examine their impact on legal and institutional developments and governance practices in given socio-legal contexts (e.g., Central Asia) t
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The second research stream is on Domestic (macro/central level) institutions, anti-corruption laws, policies and initiatives. The goal of this research stream is to investigate the domestic institutional and legal frameworks that facilitate or impair the (anti-) corruption environment and how the domestic actors function and respond to pressures from external actors (international organisat
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The third research stream is on Meso-level norms, practices and actors. The goal of this research stream is to explore the role and strategies of non-state actors (e.g., civil society institutions, business actors) and informal institutions vis-à-vis central level state institutions, policies and laws and how these processes and strategies mould the (anti-) corruption environment. Researchers und
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The fourth research stream is on Micro-level (everyday) social norms and practices. The goal of this research stream is to study the local socio-legal context and cultural repertoires– particular histories, relations, meanings, cultural values, social norms and everyday discourses, networks of reciprocity and exchange – that inform the meaning of corruption. Researchers under this research stream
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To conduct a comprehensive analysis of major (global and national) anti-corruption laws, policies and programmes and to assess how they are applied, perceived and reshaped in everyday life situations, the MOCCA team will develop a new framework for the study of corruption, the multilevel orders of corruption. This framework will allow the MOCCA team to understand corruption from an interdisciplina
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MOCCA is the first research and staff exchanges programme on multilevel and interdisciplinary study of (anti-) corruption, consisting of 8 European universities and 9 associated partners from Central Asia that come from academia, government anti-corruption bodies, business ombudsman, international/multigovernmental dialogue organizations, law enforcement, civil society and anti-corruption NGOs, de
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Economic relations between EU and Central Asian countries Challenging business environment: inconsistent business ethics and weak rule-of-law Lack of understanding of the interconnections between legal cultures, local business environments and governance in Central Asia Lack of specialists and intelligence focusing on Central Asian legal cultures and business environment
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MOCCA team will conduct empirical studies in Central Asia and examine (anti-) corruption laws and policies adopted (“law in books”) and how they are applied and work in real-life situations (“living in action”). Global anti-corruption laws, institutions, indicators, and discourses: explore the politics, power relations, indicators, and discourses that underlie the global anti-corruption industry,
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Urinboyev, R. (2024). The Political Economy of Central Asian Law: A Law and Society Analysis. In: Urinboyev, R. (eds) The Political Economy of Central Asian Law. International Political Economy Series. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-55341-7_1 Mustafoev, T. (2024). The International Anticorruption Agenda, Legal Culture, and Business Environment in Uzbekistan. In: Urinbo
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Corruption has become, without a doubt, a buzzword in both academic and policy debates over the last three decades. The initial view that “corruption greases the wheels of economic growth” in the newly independent states of Africa and Asia has lost its validity in the light of the current ever-growing global coalition against corruption, spearheaded by Transparency International (TI) and the World
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MOCCA is a research and staff exchange programme intended to contribute to the global and national efforts of understanding and counteracting corruption by conducting interdisciplinary research on the multilevel orders of corruption in five countries in Central Asia - Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. MOCCA project aims to: collect original empirical data on the int
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Edited Volumes, Monographs and Research Reports Urinboyev, R. (Ed.). (2024). The Political Economy of Central Asian Law: A Law and Society Analysis. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-55341-7 Urinboyev, R., & Svensson, M. (2024). Law, Society and Corruption: Lessons from the Central Asian Context (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429952968 Khamzaev, D. (2024). Co
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Gromov, G., Ovezmyradov, B. (2024). Differences in Research Performance Between Central Asian and Baltic States. In: Kabashkin, I., Yatskiv, I., Prentkovskis, O. (eds) Reliability and Statistics in Transportation and Communication. RelStat 2023. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 913. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-53598-7_47
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Lund University Project coordinator University of Helsinki Beneficiary Vilnius University Beneficiary Marmara University Beneficiary İstanbul Medipol University Beneficiary Estonian Business School Beneficiary Aarhus University Beneficiary Charles University Beneficiary
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University of Zurich Partner General Prosecutor's Office of Republic of Uzbekistan Partner Tajik State University of Commerce Partner Westminster International University in Tashkent Partner OSCE Academy Partner Anti-Corruption Business Council under the President of the Kyrgyz Republic Partner Tebigy Kuwwat Social Unit Enterprise Partner Eurasian Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies Partner Ku
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LUND UNIVERSITY, SWEDEN Rustamjon Urinboyev, Principal InvestigatorRustam Urinboyev is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology of Law at Lund University. He is a principal investigator of the EU-funded project “Central Asian Law: Legal Cultures and Business Environments in Central Asia,” which is coordinated by Lund University. Rustamjon works at the intersection of sociology of law
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Zhetysu University is the largest educational and scientific centre in the Almaty region of the Republic of Kazakhstan. The university provides teaching in 89 educational programs for undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral studies, accredited by international agencies IQAA and ACQUIN. The University has 6 higher schools: the higher school of law and economics, the higher school of humanities, the h
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