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Mainstream academic literature, international reports and media coverage have long portrayed the post-Soviet governments as corrupt, ineffective and unaccountable. However, this unyielding narrative obscures a more complex and diverse reality.
Drawing on policy success frameworks, this edited collection presents 10 diverse case studies within a novel under-researched geographical region – Central Asia and the Caucasus.
These cases include civil service reform in Georgia, sovereign oil fund governance in Azerbaijan, electric vehicle adoption in Armenia, public service innovations in Uzbekistan, national immunisation rollouts in Kyrgyzstan, higher education reforms in Turkmenistan and state-sponsored scholarship programmes in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan.
This book shows how, across Central Asia and the Caucasus, genuine policy successes are quietly reshaping public services, improving lives and demonstrating what effective governance can look like in non-democratic and hybrid contexts. A must-read for anyone studying evidence-based models of governance, policy success and positive public administration.
Saltanat Janenova is Lecturer in Public Policy at the University of Bristol and Lead of the Center for Public Administration and Behavioural Policy at the National Analytical Center, Nazarbayev University.
Assel Mussagulova is Lecturer in Public Policy and Public Administration at the University of Sydney.
1. ‘Seeing’ Policy Successes in Central Asia and Caucasus – Shifting Focus – Saltanat Janenova & Assel Mussagulova
Part I: Policy Successes in Central Asia
2. Kazakhstan’s ‘Bolashak’ Scholarship: Development, Institutional Reform, and Resilience – Adil Kusmanov, Dolores Tyulebekova and Ilyas Zhapakov
3. Kyrgyzstan’s Immunisation Journey: A Case of Policy Reform, Adaptation, and International Support – Kanykey Bayalieva-Jailobaeva, Marina Duishenkulova, Gulnara Asilbekova and Temirlan Jailobaev
4. From Rukhnama to Reform: Educational Policy Success in Turkmenistan – Gulshat Rozyyeva
5. Education Reform and Policy Success in Turkmenistan: Continuity, Change and Constraint – Cemen Polat
6. State-Sponsored Scholarships and Higher Education Reform: The Case of ‘El-Yurt Umidi’ in Uzbekistan – Dilnoza Ubaydullaeva
7. Delivery Unit in Uzbekistan: A Policy Success Framework Analysis – Aziza Umarova
Part II: Policy Successes in Caucasus
8. Azerbaijan’s State Oil Fund: A Pocket of Efficiency – Farid Guliyev
9. Electric Vehicle Policy in Armenia: A Case of Policy Success? – Gayane Atoyan
10. Reforming the Machinery of the State: Bounded Policy Success and Rollback in Georgia’s Civil Service – Davit Obolzadze
11. Regulatory Cooperation between the European Union and Georgia on Internal Market Legislation: A Case of Policy Success? – Michel Vincent Anderlini and Natia Gamkredlize
12. Applying the Policy Success Lens to Central Asia and the Caucasus – Assel Mussagulova and Saltanat Janenova