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UNDP, 2019-2020. SOCIOLOGICAL STUDY ON PUBLIC TRUST IN COURTS, SATISFACTION LEVEL OF LOCAL COURT SERVICE USERS, AND EXPERT ASSESSMENT OF COURT PERFORMANCE QUALITY.

ANALYSIS OF THE REASONS FOR THE LOW PERCEPTION OF THE INDEPENDENCE OF THE JUDICIAL SYSTEM BY ENTREPRENEURS, NATIONAL CHAMBER OF ENTREPRENEURS "ATAMEKEN", 2018-2019.

 

NATIONAL CHAMBER OF ENTREPRENEURS "ATAMEKEN", 2018. PREPARATION OF A SPECIAL REVIEW ON CORRUPTION

 

The history of corruption studies in Kazakhstan within our research framework dates back to the late 1990s.

Sange conducted a series of studies that formed a fundamental understanding of corruption in our country:

• Corruption in Kazakhstan, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, 1998: One of the first academic studies that allowed us to gain an initial understanding of the scale and mechanisms of corruption in the country during the period of market economy formation. This work laid a crucial methodological foundation.
• Courts Without Corruption: Regional Studies of the Judicial System in Kazakhstan, Transparency Kazakhstan, 2001: This study became key to our analysis of corruption within the judicial system. It helped identify major problems and vulnerabilities, many of which, as our later research indicates, continue to be relevant.
• Corruption in Kazakhstan, UNDP Bratislava, 2002: What do officials think about corruption? Has the rejection of corruption become a guiding principle for civil servants? To what extent are beliefs formed, is knowledge ingrained, and is there an understanding of the urgency of the tasks facing society and the state in the field of eradicating corruption among middle and senior-level officials of the central apparatus? This study provides an opportunity to answer these questions and help formulate further policy in the area of anti-corruption measures organized by state bodies and the non-governmental sector.

• Administrative Barriers as a Source of Corruption Offenses in Public Service, 2007: The State Anti-Corruption Program quite rightly links corruption with complex administrative procedures, excessive reporting requirements and sanctions for violations, the level of competence of civil servants, as well as internal and external control systems. Furthermore, one point of the Program mentioned the necessity of assessing the scale, factors, and mechanisms of corruption. This is precisely why this study focused on a full-scale examination of administrative barriers for their corruption-generating potential, as well as providing a ranking of state bodies by the level of administrative obstacles.

 

Thus, our current findings and recommendations are based on many years of experience and an extensive database, covering more than two decades of corruption research, which allows us to track the dynamics and evolution of this complex phenomenon.