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Is Georgia’s Gen Z more politically engaged than young millennials?

30 May, 2023

Public discourse in Georgia has in recent months raised the idea that Georgia’s young people, and particularly Gen Z, are politically interested and active, particularly following the March foreign agent protests. CRRC data suggests that a majority of 18-29-year-old Georgians…

What makes people feel insecure in Georgia?

23 May, 2023

A CRRC analysis found that Georgians who feel insecure in Georgia mostly attribute this to economic insecurity, but also express concern about a wider array of harder security issues. Georgia has faced numerous crises in recent years; from the pandemic,…

What do the ‘tragic consequences’ of colour revolutions actually look like?

16 May, 2023

While Russia regularly warns against the supposed negative consequences of ‘colour revolutions’, data from the Varieties of Democracy project suggests that anti-regime protests leading to changes of government in former Soviet countries have led to lower corruption, cleaner elections, and…

Life satisfaction and what people teach their children

26 April, 2023

Data from the European Values Study (EVS) of 2017 suggests that values commonly taught to children in different countries appear to be linked to how satisfied communities are with their lives. CRRC Georgia has compared the results between Russia, Georgia,…

Shifting tides: changing dynamics of social capital in Georgia and Armenia

4 April, 2023

Both Georgia and Armenia are known for being close-knit, but levels of social ties and trust vary both between the countries and between demographics. And while levels of trust have increased in Armenia in the last decade, in Georgia, the…

Democratic hypocrisy in Tbilisi

28 February, 2023

A CRRC Georgia survey found that people living in Tbilisi were more willing to accept democracy-eroding policies if they believed that their preferred party was in power.

Evaluation of the Impact of the Agricultural Support Program

11 December, 2017

CRRC-Georgia carried out a quasi-experimental, post-hoc, mixed methods impact evaluation of the Agricultural Support Program (ASP) between December 2016 and April 2017 in collaboration with the Independent Office of Evaluation (IOE) of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD). The…

Can’t get no satisfaction. Who doesn’t want to join the EU?

10 March, 2014

On December 30, 2013 Davit Usupashivili, Chairman of the Parliament of Georgia, declared that Georgia’s top priority for the year was the signing of an Association Agreement with the EU. If signed, the association agreement will enable closer ties between…