Tag: Kazakhstan

Free Download Wojciech Ostrowski, "Politics and Oil in Kazakhstan"
English | 2009 | ISBN: 0415485800, 0415693195 | EPUB | pages: 212 | 0.5 mb
In Kazakhstan, the oil industry plays a crucial role in its economic and political life due to the country’s considerable oil revenues and accompanying conflicting interests. As an arena of political struggle, this industry provides a good test case for uncovering regime maintenance techniques. This book examines the ways in which the post-Soviet Kazakh regime has managed to sustain itself in power, and the regime maintenance techniques it has used in the process of establishing and upholding its position. It scrutinizes the tools that the Kazakh regime employed in order to bring the country’s oil industry under its control and, while doing so, shifts the emphasis from the prevalent zhuz-horde, tribe, and clan-based approaches to Kazakh politics towards corporatism and patron-client mechanisms of control.

Free Download Jonathan Aitken, "Kazakhstan: Surprises and Stereotypes After 20 Years of Independence"
English | 2011 | ISBN: 1441116540 | EPUB | pages: 216 | 0.7 mb
Jonathan Aitken has written an insightful and illuminating portrait of 21st Century Kazakhstan as it approaches its 20th Anniversary of independence from the former Soviet Union.

Free Download A Revolt in the Steppe: Understanding Kazakhstan’s January Events of 2022
by Jean-François Caron
English | 2023 | ISBN: 9819907829 | 110 Pages | True PDF | 2 MB

Free Download Dina Sharipova, "State-Building in Kazakhstan: Continuity and Transformation of Informal Institutions "
English | ISBN: 1498540562 | 2018 | 190 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
This book challenges the conventional wisdom that informal institutions-networks, clientelism, and connections-have to disappear in modern societies due to liberalization of the economy, rapid urbanization, and industrialization. The case of Kazakhstan shows that informal reciprocal institutions continue to play an important role in people’s everyday lives. Liberalization of the economy and state retrenchment from the social sphere decreased the provision of public goods and social support to the population in the post-independence period. Limited access to state benefits has, in turn, stimulated people’s engagement in informal reciprocal relations. The author investigates informal channels and mechanisms people use to gain access to quality public goods-education, housing, and healthcare. Comparing the Soviet and post-Soviet periods, the author shows that people are more likely to rely on family networks and clientelist relations rather than on help from the state to obtain scarce resources. The book provides an important contribution to the literature on informal institutions and explains the relationship between a formal welfare state and informal reciprocity.