The top down approach to anti corruption has been criticized by scholars

The top down approach to anti corruption has been criticized by scholars and anti graft bodies alike for assume weaknesses. Government institutions mandated to end corruption are the same institutions which are seen as the chief agents of corruption. Furthermore, such institutions cannot act free of political interference since they essentially work agents the same government which establish and funds them. In Kazakhstan, these cases have been reported by anti graft civil authorities which accuse the state police, the executive as well as the parliament undermining the operation of such institutions. For instance, Kazakhstani media law has been amended severally by the parliament to curtail any efforts by the media to critique the government. While the Kazakhstani government claims this is in the best efforts to stifle dissent, it is evident that such the media laws stifle democracy instead⁶⁵. Such failures of the Kazakhstani’s also confirm Bo Rothstein assertions that only si8mulataneosu small and large scale efforts creates the necessary big bag effect which discourages corruption. The implementations of piecemeal anti graft efforts, such as the case in Kazakhstan does not generate the necessary motivations for graft agents to end corruption