It would be a mistake to assess the significance of Kazakhstan’s parliamentary elections, held on Aug. 24, solely through the distribution of mandates or the results achieved by individual parties. What is far more important is the broader political and institutional process of which these elections are both a consequence and another stage. In recent years, Kazakhstan has embarked on a distinctive path of evolutionary political modernization, the central element of which is not the sudden dismantling of the existing system, but its gradual transformation.
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