On the Issue of the Kazakh Model of Transit

Abstract

This article examines the Kazakh model of transit. An attempt is made to characterize January 2022 events (protests and violence) in Kazakhstan. According to the author, the protest movement, along with the coup attempt, was based on deep social problems that were ignored for many years. There is no doubt that social movements were the result of a communicative crisis that went deeper as a consequence of the political transition that had begun. The major reason for the crisis communication between the authorities and society is connected with the existing clientelism. It was clientelism and its inability to adequately respond to the new demands of society that led to the demoralization of the entire state administrative apparatus. An attempt, under the conditions of the patron-client relations, to ensure the legislative consolidation of institutions for the transit of power was not successful. The author sees the reason for the failure in the absence of full-fledged institutions that have not been formed and naturally have not been entrenched in the political consciousness. The absence of a political tradition, non-participation of the population in the decision-making process led to the fact that the legislative novels that fixed the transit of power were canceled overnight without public objection. The author links the trajectory of successful political reforms with the existing staffing problem.