Cities and Local Governments in Central Asia Administrative, Fiscal, and Political Urban Battles

• Main Author: Junussova, Madina
• Format: eBook Book
• Language: English
• Published: United Kingdom Routledge 2020; Taylor and Francis; Taylor & Francis
• Edition: 1
• Series: Routledge Advances in Central Asian Studies
• Subjects: administrative; African American & Black Studies; Almaty City; Almaty Region; American; Asian Studies; Central Asian post-Soviet Countries; Central Asian Studies; Central Asian, Russian & Eastern European Studies; Central Government; cities; Cities & Infrastructure (Urban Studies); City planning; Cultural & Ethnic Studies; Decentralisation Reforms; decentralization; Development studies; Dezentralisierung; Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning; Eastern; Economic development; Economic development > Political aspects > Kazakhstan; Europe; fiscal; Geography; History; Human geography; Interdisciplinary studies; International Monetary Fund; Kasachstan; Kazakhstan; Kazakhstan > Economic policy > 1991; Kazakhstan > Politics and government > 1991; Key Urban Infrastructure; Kommunalpolitik; Local Development; Local government; Local government > Kazakhstan; local governments; Municipal government; National Projects; National Transfers; Nonfiction; Place Based Case Studies; Political Decentralisation Reforms; political power; politics; Politics and government; power; Public Administration; Public Infrastructure; Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects; Regional / International studies; Regional and area planning; Social groups; Social groups, communities and identities; Social Science; Society and culture: general; Society and Social Sciences; Sociology; Stadtentwicklung; Stadtökonomik; Territorial Programmes; Urban and municipal planning and policy; Urban communities; Self-government Act; Local Development; Political Decentralisation; Place Based Case Studies; Political Decentralisation Reforms; Asian Winter Games; Kazakhstan; Central Government; Subnational Government; Key Urban Infrastructure; Public Procurement; political power; Public Tender; Public Administration; Public Infrastructure; local governments; Almaty Region; central Asian studies; Local Decision Makers; International Monetary Fund; Budget Code; Central Asian post-Soviet Countries; cities, local governments, power, administrative, fiscal, politics, decentralization; Territorial Programmes; Almaty City; Decentralisation Reforms; National Projects; National Transfers; Local Civil Servants
• ISBN: 100005621X; 9781000056211; 0367279193; 9781032400501; 1032400501; 9780367279196; 0429298757; 9780429298752; 1000056236; 9781000056235; 1000056252; 9781000056259
• DOI: 10.4324/9780429298752

This book presents the changing roles of urban governments and how local governments struggle to gain administrative, fiscal, and political power to combat current urban challenges in Kazakhstan. Focusing on the cities and regions selected by the national government of Kazakhstan to be the drivers of national economic development, the author analyses the impact of decentralization on the role of local governments. The book examines the practical experiences of city and regional governments with an emphasis on urban planning, public investment in national projects, and management of urban transport. Due to the complexity and irregular distribution of political reforms at different levels of local government in Kazakhstan, three separate studies are presented, each looking at a specific aspect of decentralization reform and local government function related to physical urban development and distribution of public investment. The author argues that, if the national government of Kazakhstan wants to concentrate economic resources in urban agglomerations, it is not enough to assume that local governments are ready to play the role of efficient planners and managers of urban development. A useful analysis illustrating cities and urban conglomerations as engines of growth in economic development, this book will be of interest to academics studying Central Asian Studies, in particular political and economic development, Development Studies, and Urban Studies.