Setting a policy (or public, national, legislative) agenda is the most important source of presidential duties. It is done in order to influence and stimulate the relevant stakeholders of a public system for consideration ...

Kazakhstan's ultimate goal for the next 20 years is to become one of the most economically successful top 30 countries in the world. In order to get onto that list, the President of the country, on a regular basis, sets ...

Performing of strategic tasks for development of a country, such as modernization and conversion of its economy into the innovation vector, improvement of the level and quality of life of the population requires the search ...

Line management practices are paid a vast amount of attention in the private sector and in international organizations in many countries, as it has a strong impact on employees’ motivation. Whether line management is also ...

On May 2015, Kazakhstan made effective the “2015 Islamic Finance Amendments”. According to a Baker McKenzie 2015 Legal Report, this contains a “legal basis for provision of certain new Shari'a compliant services, in ...

This chapter discusses the difference between codes of ethics and codes of conduct, their role, their function and their distribution. The chapter also pays some attention to what makes codes of conduct most effective.

In September 2019, the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan in his address to the Nation mentioned the possibility of using pension savings for buying a house or educational purposes and the reform of the pension system ...

Building on the work by Huntington (1968) and Panebianco (1983) this chapters discusses the relationship between corruption and the inadequate institutionalization of political parties.

Properly functioning Public Accounts Committees (PACs) are essential for promoting good governance, preventing misallocation of resources and curbing corruption. The purpose of the present paper is to analyze the organization, ...