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A Conflict of State-led Initiative and Economic Rationality: Focusing on the State Language and Lingua Franca in Uzbekistan

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  • Masahiro Tokunaga

    (Faculty of Business and Commerce, Kansai University)

  • Ravshan Shomurodov

    (Faculty of Banking, Tashkent Institute of Finance)

  • Okiliddin Alimov

    (Faculty of Japanese Studies, Tashkent State Institute of Oriental Studies)

Abstract

To untangle the root of contradictions across linguistic development in post-Soviet Uzbekistan, we explicitly introduce linguistic factors into the transaction cost theory of new institutional economics and the concepts of institutional connectivity and complementarity proposed by comparative institutional analysis in an attempt to construct a theoretical framework for comprehending the dilemma between the state-led initiative and economic rationality regarding linguistic issues in the post-Soviet space. In light of these theoretical considerations, we propose three types of conceptual institutional settings and examine a case study of Uzbekistan that lacks robustness of institutional complementarity for implementing the effective language policies.

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  • Masahiro Tokunaga & Ravshan Shomurodov & Okiliddin Alimov, 2021. "A Conflict of State-led Initiative and Economic Rationality: Focusing on the State Language and Lingua Franca in Uzbekistan," KIER Working Papers 1068, Kyoto University, Institute of Economic Research.
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    Keywords

    transaction costs; institutional complementarity; state language; lingua franca; Uzbekistan;
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    JEL classification:

    • P21 - Political Economy and Comparative Economic Systems - - Socialist and Transition Economies - - - Planning, Coordination, and Reform
    • P52 - Political Economy and Comparative Economic Systems - - Comparative Economic Systems - - - Comparative Studies of Particular Economies
    • Z13 - Other Special Topics - - Cultural Economics - - - Economic Sociology; Economic Anthropology; Language; Social and Economic Stratification

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