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Does Oil Impede Democracy?. Edition No. 1
VDM Publishing House, Sep 2008, Pages: 96
Even if post-Soviet Kazakhstan has obtained an
impressive economic growth and has democratic
institutions formally present, democratization has
been rather unsuccessful, also when compared to quite
a few other former communist states. To what degree
may the failure of democracy be ascribed to
Kazakhstan’s economic reliance on oil revenues? This
book analyzes the Kazakh political transition since
the time of independence in 1991 until 2007. A
feature that differentiates Kazakhstan from several
other former communist states is its significant
petroleum resources. Thus, it is interesting to see
how the growth in the extraction of these resources
since 1991 may have influenced the country’s economy
and political developments. At the same time,
Kazakhstan shares the problems of democratization
with the other post-Soviet states located in Central
Asia and Caucasus. It is therefore necessary to
consider the region’s cultural-historical legacies
when attempting to explain the difficulties of
democratic progress in Kazakhstan. The analysis
should be useful to anyone interested in how
resource-led economic growth influences the prospects
for democracy in states without democratic traditions.
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