Party System Formation in Kazakhstan: Between Formal and Informal Politics

By Rico Isaacs

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 041559023X
• ISBN13: 9780415590235
• Release Date: March 2011
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 234 Pages
• Weight: 1.12 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"