International Policy Transfer in Post-Communist States: A Case from Kazakhstan

Ilyassova-Schoenfeld A.
1 March 2023 University of California Press

Communist and Post-Communist Studies
2023 #56 Issue 1 105 - 128 pp.

This study aims to explore international policy transfer (IPT) through examining educational reforms in Kazakhstan. Literature on policy transfer lacks cases between Western countries and postcommunist states with a Soviet legacy. This study used the IPT framework as a heuristic device to analyze the Bologna Process (BP), an intergovernmental higher education process. Empirical data included semi-structured interviews with BP stakeholders and thematic analyses of official documents to examine the stages of accession transfer. The findings demonstrated that a Soviet legacy constrains the policy transfer process during accession stages, limiting the policy transfer process from the West and leading to incomplete transfers.

Bologna Process , higher education reforms , international policy transfer , Kazakhstan , post-communist state

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Khoja Akhmet Yassawi International Kazakh-Turkish University, Eurasian Research Institute, Almaty, Kazakhstan

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