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The Variety of Democracy Institute鈥檚听Regional Center for Central Asia听was founded in October 2016 at the American University of Central听Asia to explore the dynamics of regime change and post-soviet听transformation in Central Asia and other parts of the post-Soviet听space. Its activities are aimed to support and advance scholarship in听this area through collaborative research projects. The center chiefly seeks to examine political regime dynamics and political transformation of the听region through research and organizing academic conferences,听workshops, roundtables, summer schools, and public events. More information about V-Dem is available听

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In 2020, the department has undertaken systematic research on dominant electoral and discursive strategies deployed by contending parties during the campaigning period leading up to the parliamentary election of October 04, 2020. The overall analysis indicated that parties continue employing a varying configuration of electoral clientelistic strategies and established that the proclivity amongst parties for large-scale vote-buying practices, unseen in previous electoral cycles, could be potentially explained with a close association of 鈥榲ote-buying鈥� parties with the ruling regime. The tendency to buy votes also seems to be reinforced by the party strategy to recruit prominent politicians possessing considerable political and financial resources and capable of distributing patronage benefits.听

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