Trajectory of Civil Service Development in Kazakhstan: Nexus of Politics and Administration

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Emrich-Bakenova, Saule
• 署名单位: KIMEP University
• 刊物名称: GOVERNANCE-AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF POLICY ADMINISTRATION AND INSTITUTIONS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0952-1895
• DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0491.2009.01460.x
• 发表日期: 2009
• 关键词: state; politicization; COMPETITION; issues; REFORM

摘要

Although Kazakhstan's civil service reforms have the explicit objective of depoliticizing administrative personnel, they have had limited success in achieving that end. Contrary to the formal objective, they make the worlds of political and administrative executives all but indistinguishable. A considerable gap between formal rules and their informal understanding creates loose boundaries of permitted behavior and allows discretionary enforcement and influence. The failure to reach the stated policy objective underscores the paradoxical coexistence of two political environments: one marked by its de jure centralized political structure and another by its de facto decentralization at various levels of civil service.