State-Society Relations: NGOs in Kazakhstan

Knox, Colin; Yessimova, Sholpan

State-Society Relations: NGOs in Kazakhstan

dc.contributor.author	Knox, Colin
dc.contributor.author	Yessimova, Sholpan
dc.date.accessioned	2016-12-22T09:59:30Z
dc.date.available	2016-12-22T09:59:30Z
dc.date.issued	2015
dc.description.abstract	Kazakhstan has provided the economic exemplar for other Commonwealth of Independent State (CIS) countries since its independence in 1991 following the collapse of the Soviet Union. It has been classified by the World Bank as an ‘upper middle income’ country and witnessed sustained growth in spite of the global recession. Political reforms however have been slower to realise and the Presidential Republic still remains a highly centralised and autocratic regime. Some 23 years beyond independence this paper assesses whether the role played by the NGO sector has changed and, as a consequence, the asymmetric state-society fulcrum has shifted in favour of a stronger societal voice in Kazakhstan. It finds mixed evidence of partnership between NGOs and Government and ongoing problems in exercising public voice and moderating the power of the state	ru_RU
dc.identifier.citation	Colin Knox and Sholpan Yessimova; 2015; State-Society Relations: NGOs in Kazakhstan; Journal of Civil Society; http://nur.nu.edu.kz/handle/123456789/2092	ru_RU
dc.identifier.uri	http://nur.nu.edu.kz/handle/123456789/2092
dc.language.iso	en	ru_RU
dc.publisher	Journal of Civil Society	ru_RU
dc.rights	Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States	*
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/	*
dc.subject	NGOs	ru_RU
dc.subject	Kazakhstan	ru_RU
dc.title	State-Society Relations: NGOs in Kazakhstan	ru_RU
dc.type	Article	ru_RU