Post-Soviet Political Transformation in Azerbaijan: Political Elite, Civil Society and The Trials of Democratization

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2010-06-01

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Ergun Özbolat, Ayça

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'The aim of this article is to analyze the process of post-Soviet transformation in Azerbaijan while focusing on the process of democratization, peculiarities of the leadership and political elite, success and failure in electoral politics, and development of civil society. I argue that the politics of the post-independence period was shaped by the conflicting co-existence of patterns of continuity and change which determined the path of political transformation in Azerbaijan.

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Civil Society, Political elite, Democratization, Political transformation, Azerbaijan

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/54424

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ULUSLARARASI ILISKILER-INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

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Department of Sociology, Article

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A. Ergun Özbolat, “Post-Soviet Political Transformation in Azerbaijan: Political Elite, Civil Society and The Trials of Democratization,” ULUSLARARASI ILISKILER-INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS, pp. 67–85, 2010, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/54424.