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Abstract:
This article is dedicated to search of cause-and-effect relations in the stages of democratization of Kazakhstan. The key aspect is to define exact direction of development vector in respect to a new social and political basis for the Republic. This can help forecast future qualitative changes.
Democratization in Kazakhstan was partially a result of avalanche global trend. The realias of the State should have complied with requirements of the global stage, so this was the main economic reason for reframing of values within a unified state. In this article the authors tell about background, pitfalls and solutions within establishment of a unique democratic model, build on the debris of the USSR system.
The objective of this article is to find out true reasons and consequences of democratization in Kazakhstan, with detailed analysis of stages of its establishment since 1990. The material reveals influence of certain qualitative changes upon adopted social and political decisions.
Keywords: Republic of Kazakhstan, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, international relations, democratization, stages of development of democracy, social and political institutions, national values.
JEL Classification: 010, N30, K23, D72.
Introduction
Kazakhstan is a living example of staged transformation of authoritarian government into a democratic model. There are opinions that the democratization of oo (hereinafter - the Republic of Kazakhstan) is a timely and welltargeted step in the development of the state. We think that the most exact word would be 'predestined'. In fact, establishment of Kazakhstan democratization is not a step of RK to the development in the global scales, but a need to comply with the world's realties. If we look at the facts at the right angle, we will see that the democracy of Kazakhstan is more of a result of an ethno cultural division of civilizations, than a result of an independent internal political decision. This idea can be supported with a research of a well-known sociologist Samuel P. Huntington, who determined influence of a wave of democratization, epicenters of which were emerging all over the world.
It was reasonable to expect that under an avalanche global trend Kazakhstan managed to adjust and successfully use the chance. It was possible to predict that Europe would be a weighty argument for further penetration of democracy into Eurasia....