Notwithstanding the evolution in agenda-setting theories, their major assumption has been a passive stance of the government. More recent scholars (eg Boin et al., 2009), while taking an actor-centric approach to analysing ...

Taking into account growing imbalance in the field of public procurement management towards the shadow economy alongside manifestations of corruption, we consider it appropriate to study the impact of anti-corruption ...

The public sector in Kazakhstan has always been the driver of the country's development. Therefore, the response to external challenges must also come from and be formulated by the state apparatus. Concentrating resources, ...

The research aims at performance assessment of human resource usage in public service as in the case of the Republic of Kazakhstan. The authors made their main emphasis on the methodological problem of public servants’ ...

The study is devoted to the issues of staff management at civil service of the Republic of Kazakhstan. Improvement of efficiency of civil service and quality of public administration has become obligatory condition ...

This research attempts to examine the development effect of governance (through exogenous variables) applying instrumental variables estimator and two-stage least squares methods building on cross-sectional regression analysis ...

This study aims to identify issues related to developing communicative competencies among public servants by examining the educational programs, catalogs of academic disciplines, and competency models of graduate programs ...

This article is devoted toan analysis of agricultural sector of the country which is considered both a factor of ensuring competitiveness of national economy in general, and a factor of ensuring food security within ...

The focusing event theory has been substantially formed by contributions of John Kingdon by offering a somewhat broader definition of focusing events through the prism of his multiple streams theory, and Thomas Birkland, ...

Corruption appears to be destructive to investment arbitration and the international development as a whole. In some states to engage in corruption is a typical method of conducting business in investment or trade. There ...