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Open government and citizenempowerment in authoritarian states

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dc.contributor.author Kurmanov, B.
dc.contributor.author Knox, C.
dc.date.accessioned 2024-04-25T12:48:28Z
dc.date.available 2024-04-25T12:48:28Z
dc.date.issued 2022-05-04
dc.identifier.uri https://doi.org/10.1177/18793665221104118
dc.identifier.uri http://repository.kazguu.kz/handle/123456789/1970
dc.description.abstract The introduction of open government has been used in many countries to improve the transparency, accountability of the state, and promote participation by citizens in collaborative governance. Its potential for public services improvement, citizen empowerment, and a positive impact on reducing corruption have attracted scholarly attention. Set alongside this, open government initiatives have facilitated greater access to information which can be used to hold governments to account and, in so doing, build trust between citizens and the state. While open government principles sit easily in democratic systems, some authoritarian states have also adopted this concept. This raises two questions. First, is there evidence that open collaboration, as the most developed form of open government, has empowered citizens in autocracies? Second, and more generally, why would authoritarian regimes seek to adopt open government when the concepts of autocracy and openness are antithetical? This paper attempts to address these questions using three case study countries in Central Asia: Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, and Kyrgyzstan which adopted open government policies. It finds evidence of co- optation, network authoritarianism, and state unresponsiveness/resistance to citizens’ inputs. ru_RU
dc.language.iso en ru_RU
dc.publisher Journal of Eurasian Studies, Vol. 13(2),156–171 ru_RU
dc.subject Open government, citizens’ empowerment, authoritarianism, Central Asia ru_RU
dc.title Open government and citizenempowerment in authoritarian states ru_RU
dc.type Article ru_RU


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