Evolving Political Cultures in Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, and Kyrgyzstan: Trends and New Paradigms
Serikzhanova A. Nurtazina R. Serikzhanova I. Bukharbay B. Taitorina B.
30 July 2024Florida Gulf Coast University
Journal of Ethnic and Cultural Studies
2024#11Issue 31 - 24 pp.
In the 21st century, new means of information and communication technologies have become an important tool for many countries in terms of expanding political rights and freedoms, forming a rule-of-law state, and achieving the ideals of a democratic society. The paper aims to study trends and carry out a qualitative assessment of the interdependence of the media and social platforms and political culture of citizens of three Central Asian countries: Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, and Kyrgyzstan. This work aims to fill the existing theoretical gap regarding the issues of mutual influence of political culture and media in the states above. The study reveals the factors of public political participation in the three countries examined through the prism of comparing indicators of public participation in political processes in the context of the development and emergence of new types of media and social network platforms. The paper analyses the essential features of each country’s development of democratic institutions and civil dialogue, considering the role of traditional media and social networks as implementation tools. Based on the experience of the three countries examined, the results of the study give reason to say that the media (including social networks and media platforms) do not have a decisive influence on the formation of political culture. Transformation processes in the sphere above of these countries are fragmentary, affecting to a greater extent issues of individual perception of political processes, as a rule, without significant external manifestation. The findings of the study provide grounds to assert that the theoretical comprehension of political culture in the examined countries is scarcely distinguishable from the concept of political awareness.
Central Asia , civic engagement , civil society , democracy , institutionalism , media communication , political participation
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Department of Political Science, Eurasian National University, Astana, Kazakhstan
Center for Peace and Conflict Studies, Philipps University Marburg, Frankfurt, Germany
Faculty of Law & Social Science, Suleyman Demirel University, Astana, Kazakhstan
Department of Medical Law, Kazakh National Medical University named after S.D. Asfendiyarov, Almaty, Kazakhstan
Department of Political Science
Center for Peace and Conflict Studies
Faculty of Law & Social Science
Department of Medical Law
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