Powers and resources of self-government bodies in Kazakhstan: Political and Legal Analysis

Abstract

The article analyses the process of institutionalization of political-legal and social bases of the constitutional model of local self-governance.
The author identifies the major issues concerning constitutional restrictions and shows the contradictions in providing organizational and legal bases of local self-government. The author also provides arguments confirming necessity to overview the current policy and to introduce the required corrections within the framework of the functioning constitutional model in order to expand powers and to increase resources of the local self-government bodies.
It has been proved that modification of the system of local self-governance in Kazakhstan was carried out through strengthening of the role of representative authority bodies which legislatively also represented bodies of local self-governance.