The Institute for Public Policy is a Bishkek-based independent organization that was founded in April 2005. It aims at promoting formation of a practice of public policy and development of mechanisms of constructive interaction between state institutions, civil society, mass media and businesses.
The Institute for Public Policy asked experts and representatives of the NGO sector to express their views on the decision of the Parliamentary Committee on Constitutional Law, Public Administration, Legality and Local Government to change the order of filling vacant parliamentary seats.
"The probability of repetition of past errors is 50%. One question remains open: what price will we pay this time?" said Sheradil Baktygulov, an expert in public administration, in an article written exclusively for the Institute for Public Policy.
The Institute for Public Policy asked Kyrgyz experts to express their opinion on the development of the foreign policy of Kyrgyzstan in the near future.
The Institute for Public Policy asked representatives of youth organizations from different regions of Kyrgyzstan to tell about conflicts that most often occur in their region.
"The leaders of the state should refrain from populism and avoid rhetoric that overloads with the "revolutionary romanticism" of people’s expectations regarding their participation in decision making," noted in an article written exclusively for the Institute for Public Policy a political analyst Anar Musabaeva.
"I consider it necessary to remind the "players", raising a question of dissolving the current Parliament, that every new dParliament is usually worse than all previous ones”, said Murat Ukushov, an expert in Constitutional Law, in an article written exclusively for the Institute for Public Policy.
"Any collusion to the detriment of transparency and competition objectively leads to deterioration of economic performance and growth of discontent among the public," said an article written for the Institute for Public Policy Tamerlan Ibraimov, director of the Center for Political and Legal Studies.
"In Kyrgyzstan, there is long-term potential for the conflict between the governance system, on the one hand, and business and society, on the other hand," said Sheradil Baktygulov, an expert in public administration, in an article written exclusively for the Institute for Public Policy.
We offer our readers the text of the speech by Valentin Bogatyrev, the head of the analytical consortium "Perspective" from a Roundtable, discussing the lessons of 2011, held by the Institute for Public Policy. The Roundtable took place on January 18, 2012.
"It is better not to come close to Kyrgyz politics. There are many reasons for this, but one of them is that the closer you look at it, the less sense you see there", said Valentin Bogatyrev, Head of the Research Consortium "Perspective", during the meeting with experts held on 28th of December at the Institute for Public Policy.
On December 13, 2011, the Institute for Public Policy held a meeting of experts on the topic "The situation in the parliament." Representatives of international organizations also took part.
On September 23, 2011, the Institute for Public Policy held a meeting with experts who discussed the political situation in Kyrgyzstan and the possible risks of an elections disruption.