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A Study on the Elite Turnover of the Kazakhstan Parliament: Focusing on the 4th to 8th House of the Parliament

  • Analyses & Alternatives
  • Abbr : A&A
  • 2024, 8(1), pp.169~196
  • DOI : 10.22931/aanda.2024.8.1.007
  • Publisher : Korea Consensus Institute
  • Research Area : Social Science > Social Science in general
  • Received : January 22, 2024
  • Accepted : February 16, 2024
  • Published : February 28, 2024

SangUn Park 1

1Eurasia Institute, Hanshin University

Accredited

ABSTRACT

In the House of the Parliament of Kazakhstan, which members are re-elected several times, while others are only first-term? Existing studies on the Kazakhstan political elites have mainly discussed the effect of clans on the appointment or replacement of elites. These studies have contributed to explaining the characteristics of Kazakhstan's clientelistic political structure, but the analysis of the relationship between political background and elite appointment or replacement is very poor. The purpose of this study is to analyze what characteristics of members have continuity in the 4th to 8th House of the Parliament of Kazakhstan. As a result, members with activities in Communist Party of the Soviet Union had a higher average seniority than those who did not in the 4th, 6th, and 7th House of the Parliament. And Nur Otan members had a higher average seniority than those who did not in 4th and 5th House of the Parliament. On the other hand, there was no difference in average seniority by local political experience, and the difference by elite type was only partially found in the 6th House of the Parliament. These results reflect the president's strategy for parliamentary control in that the parliament is used as a means of solidifying Kazakhstan's political regime as an authoritarian state. The significance of this study is that for the first time it empirically proved who sustains political survival in the House of the Parliament of Kazakhstan.

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.