REVIEW

    Of Nauryzbek Madina Dulatkyzy's dissertation "Conflict of Interest in the public Service:
    Prevention Mechanisms in the Republic of Kazakhstan" submitted for a Doctor in profile

                               degree in "8D04113 - Public Administration,,

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 Research of Nauryzbek Madina Dulatkyzy is very actual and important, which covers related

 fields of knowledge : public administration, conflict of interest in public service and

 anticorruption policy. The dissertation includes analysis of international practices and

 legislation regulating conflict of interest in public service, which also can be considered as one
 of the field of the research.

 The amount of work done within the framework of the research is significant and productive,
 because it contains both theoretical and practical examination of conflict of interest in public

 service, prevention and responding mechanisms of corruption.

The main contribution of the dissertation is that it develops unified mechanisms for the
prevention of conflict of interest in public service. Furthermore, it's impressive that the
research includes conflict of interest in the public service draft curriculum and amendments /

additions to the current legislation in terms of declaring interests and powers to verify the
 declared information.

The dissertation contains review of OECD Guidelines, repofts of Transparency International,
scientific articles about conflict of interest and corruption, which are actually the relevant
literature in the field of anticorruption policy. In addition, research focuses on analyzing the
international practices and current legislation of conflict of interest in Kazakhstan, that is the

most aPPropriate way to develop updated and unified approaches about the prevention

mechanisms' All the above-mentioned issues confirm, that the themes, which are represented
in the dissertation are relevant to the research topic.

The research is conducted with both qualitative and quantitative methods, also comparative
analysis and synthesis, justification, case study, sociological survey methods. It's important to

note the amount of international and Kazakh experts (total number 29), which were

interviewed by the author for exploring the new approaches and ideas about the research
issues. Besides, the quantitative resbarch method was applied through a survey among 10 255
public servants from all regions of Kazakhstan. This irrdicates the trustworthy of the research,
because summing up various opinions of the interviewed e4perts or public servants, can
actually identify real needs and problems of the current regulations and anticorruption policy.
The research was also conducted with methods of comparative analysis of legislative acts and