Party System Formation in Kazakhstan: Between Formal and Informal Politics

ISBN-13: 9781138102347 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 224 str.

Rico Isaacs

Opis

Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, Central Asian states have developed liberal-constitutional formal institutions. However, at the same time, political phenomena in Central Asia are shaped by informal political behaviour and relations. This relationship is now a critical issue affecting democratization and regime consolidation processes in former Soviet Central Asia, and this book provides an account of the interactive and dynamic relationship between informal and formal politics through the case of party-system formation in Kazakhstan.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: In-between the Informal and Formal - Introducing Party Development in Kazakhstan and Central Asia  2. Neopatrimonialism and Party Development: A Framework for Analysis  3. Uncertain Transition: The Development of Neopatrimonialism in Kazakhstan  4. The Institutional Constraints on Political Parties: Presidency, Elections and the Law on Political Parties  5. What Type of Parties? Membership, Organisation, Ideology and Behavioural Norms  6. Passiveness and Disconnection: Parties and Society in Kazakhstan  7. Conclusion: Patrimonial Politics and Party Development Beyond Kazakhstan

O autorze

Rico Isaacs is a Lecturer in International Studies at Oxford Brookes University, UK. His research interests include the relationship between formal and informal politics, institutional development and authoritarianism and democracy in the former Soviet Union.