02246    a2200325   4500001001100000005001700011008004000028020001800068037003600086040000700122041000800129072001600137072001500153072001600168072001500184072001400199072001300213072001300226072001500239072002100254072002100275072002100296100001600317245007900333250000600412260003200418300001000450520144500460999001501905113679107820250317100410.0250312042011GB        6           eng    a9781136791079  bTaylor & FranciscGBP 45.99fBB  a01  aeng7 aJPHV2thema7 aGTM2thema7 aQDTS2thema7 a1FC2bisac7 aJPHV2bic7 aGTB2bic7 aHPS2bic7 a1FC2bisac7 aPOL0000002bisac7 aSOC0530002bisac7 a324.258452bisac1 aRico Isaacs10aParty System Formation in KazakhstanbBetween Formal and Informal Politics  a1  aOxfordbRoutledgec20110321  a240 p  bSince 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. Based on extensive interviews with political actors and a wide range of historical and contemporary documentary sources, the book utilises and develops neopatrimonialism as an analytical concept for studying post-Soviet authoritarian consolidation and failed democratisation. It illustrates how personalism of political office, patronage and patron-client networks and factional elite conflict have influenced and shaped the institutional constraints affecting party development, the type of emerging parties and parties’ relationship with society. The case of Kazakhstan, however, also demonstrates how in the former Soviet space political parties emerge as central to the legitimization of informal political behavior, the structuring of factional competition and the consolidation of authoritarianism. The book represents an important contribution to the study of Central Asian Politics.  c2233d2233