title: Shrinking Autonomy for Tatarstan and Gagauzia: The Perils of Flexible Institutional Design
abstract: Two and a half decades after the Soviet Union's disintegration, forms of territorialized ethnicity continue to feature prominently in arrangements for the management of ethnocultural diversity in the region. This chapter focuses on two forms of ethnicity-based territorial autonomy in post-Soviet states: the Republic of Tatarstan in Russia, and the Autonomous Territorial Unit of Gagauzia (Gagauz Yeri -hereinafter Gagauzia) in Moldova. Russia and Moldova's common Soviet past has meant the direct a