I’ve posted a PDF version of my thesis on my web site. You may download it here (warning: it’s 6.4 MB). If you would like it in net-friendly bite-size pieces (12 Word files, none larger than 200 kb), email me and I’ll send them off.

While the thesis has received departmental honors and a place at Sawyer Library, the piece is still a work in progress. It analyzes only a small fraction of my fieldwork, which, in turn, only covered a part of the political spheres of Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Mongolia. I’m continuing to work on it and will present a version of it at the MECA conference in September.

Thus, I would greatly appreciate (and will formally acknowledge in future editions) any comments, critiques and/or suggestions. Feel free to email me with anything - I’d love to correspond via email about different perspectives on democratization. I assigned the thesis the most conservative Creative Commons deed only to dissuade plagiarism, but I’m more than happy to see it distributed (please email me).