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This article presents an analysis of two post-Soviet states, Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan, which can be identified as post-Soviet rentier states. Both countries are characterised economically by enormous national resources of gas and oil and low economic diversification as well as politically by strong autocratic presidentialism with neopatrimonial structures. These two factors, combined with further post-Soviet legacies such as a low level of political interest in the respective societies and a basically hierarchical orientation of the population, lead to a specific post-Soviet variety of rentierism. From a political science perspective, this article reveals the impact of resource policies on these comparably new political systems and concludes with a summary of core features of these post-Soviet rentier states. THIS ARTICLE PRESENTS AN ANALYSIS OF TWO post-Soviet states, Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan, which we identify and analyse as post-Soviet rentier states (PSRS). In order to understand the particular political systems of both of these countries, it is necessary to take a closer look at the interrelation between resource incomes and resource policy, as well as the polity (the institutional frame) and politics (the decisionmaking processes) of these countries. 1 Both countries share similarities and structural parallels that are especially apparent in post-Soviet states in the region around the Caspian Sea. To begin with, we see similarities in the presidential, autocratic, neopatrimonial and centralised political systems of both countries. Secondly, we see similarities in the structures of traditional social relations of clan, tribe and family, which find their roots in the pre-Soviet era (Collins 2002). Finally, we find weakly developed national identities, due to 70 years of 1 Our research is based on the project 'Political and Economic Challenges of Resource-Based Development in Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan', funded by VW-Foundation. This project is based at the University of Kiel. For further information visit http://www.razkaz.uni-kiel.de.
Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. The CASE Network is a group of economic and social research centers in Poland, Kyrgyzstan, Ukraine, Georgia, Moldova, and Belarus. Organizations in the network regularly conduct joint research and advisory projects. The research covers a wide spectrum of economic and social issues, including economic effects of the European integration process, economic relations between the EU and CIS, monetary policy and euro-accession, innovation and competitiveness, and labour markets and social policy. The network aims to increase the range and quality of economic research and information available to policy-makers and civil society, and takes an active role in on-going debates on how to meet the economic challenges facing the EU, post-transition countries and the global economy. Terms of use: Documents in EconStor mayThe CASE network consists of: ............................................................................................................ He has been head of the research division 'Stability and Structural Adjustment' and of the project area 'Beyond Europe' and published on macroeconomic issues and economic development with a special focus on monetary policy, regional integration, and institution building in emerging market and transition economies. Currently, he coordinates the Kiel Institute's workpackages in the EU-financed project ENEPO (EU Eastern Neighborhood -Economic Potential and Future Development) and heads the workpackage analyzing institution building in CIS countries. Inna Melnykovska is Research Fellow at the Kiel Institute for the WorldEconomy and a PhD student at the Otto-Suhr Institut for Political Sciences, Free University (Berlin). She earned her Diploma in Economics at Ternopil Academy of National Economy and a Master's Degree in International Relations at the Institut of International Relations, Kyiv State University (Ukraine). She works in the workpackage "Institutional Convergence CIS towards European Banchmarks" in the EU-financed project ENEPO (EU Eastern Neighbourhood -Economic Potential and Future Development) and in the project on NATO's impact in transition countries. She is doing research on issues of political economy related to Eastern Europe, e.g. external and internal determinants of institution building and good governance, the role of economic actors in politics and policy-making, democracyoriented and sectoral Europeanisation, and institutional convergence (EU, WTO, and NATO's approaches).Dr. Andrea Gawrich is dep...
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