Features of Kazakhstan’s Democratic Tranzit Model: Conceptual and Methodological Analysis

• Published in: Problemy postsovetskogo prostranstva Vol. 9; no. 4; pp. 423 - 436
• Main Author: Seidumanov, A. S.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Centre of Regional Research 07.04.2023
• Subjects: authoritarianism; delegative democracy; democratic transit; parliamentarism; presidential republic
• ISSN: 2313-8920; 2587-8174
• DOI: 10.24975/2313-8920-2022-9-4-423-436

A typologically significant characteristic of the Kazakhstan model of democratic transit is the creation in Kazakhstan of a system of “super-presidential” public, in which the constitutional and legal status, functions and powers of all branches of government act as a transformed form of implementation of the principles of identitarian democracy. One of the most relevant descriptions of the features of this form is Guillermo O’Donnell’s concept of deliberative democracy. According to G. According to O’Donnell, delegative democracies are based on the premise that election to the presidency gives the winner the right to govern without resorting to the mediation of representative institutions of power. After all, the president is elected in order to be the personified embodiment of the nation, to determine and protect its interests with authority, assuming full responsibility for the fate of the country and the people. Other political institutions, for example, parties with their factionalism and permanent conflicts, are often only hindrances in the implementation of this mission. This feature of the legitimization of the political regime becomes the ideological basis for substantiating the compatibility of liberal democratic institutions with the process of personification of a political system built for a specific person.