THE AGENDA-SETTING GOVERNMENT RESILIENCE FRAMEWORK: THE CASE OF ECONOMIC DIVERSIFICATION IN KAZAKHSTAN AND KYRGYZ REPUBLIC (2008-2017)
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10.52367/BRJPD.2675-102X.2019.1.1.03-24Keywords:
economic diversification, agenda-setting, resilience, content analysis, Central Asia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan.Abstract
While similarly taking an actor-centric approach to studying agenda-setting interactions, this paper seeks to fill a gap in existing policy research by explicitly assuming the government’s capacity and motivation to withstand the external pressure that is often exerted by other key actors, and thus by introducing a concept of government resilience as applied to agenda-setting. It furthermore attempts to quantify the notion of government resilience, thus addressing the issue of operationalizing a change in public policy. Reflective of growing calls among scholars to look into policy change in the developing world, this paper develops a framework that could be useful not only in assessing the degree of resilience of a certain actor, e.g. the government, as applied to agenda-setting but used as a diagnostic tool to assess the government’s capacity to pursue its agenda and implement policy measures. Seeking to explore the potential applicability of the new framework in the context of economic diversification across two post-Soviet nations – Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan – this study looks into the time span of 2008-2017.
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