Public Attitudes Archives

Appointment of Supreme Court Justices: What people in Georgia know and think about the process

6 April, 2020

In the beginning of September 2019, the High Council of Justice provided a list of 20 Supreme Court Justice candidates to the Parliament of Georgia for approval. In September-November 2019 parliament conducted the hearing process for candidates, and on December…

Optimism Regarding EU membership is decreasing

9 December, 2019

Georgia is not a candidate for membership in the European Union (EU), but the government has the stated goal of joining the EU when the country is ready for it. According to the Knowledge of and Attitudes towards the EU in Georgia…

Attitudes toward politicians are related to evaluations of institutional performance

26 August, 2019

How citizens evaluate the performance of the state is often a reasonable proxy for its performance. In Georgia, evaluations of public institutions are mixed. While a number of social and demographic variables are associated with people’s perceptions of state performance, so…

The direction Georgia’s headed in

15 July, 2019

The most recent NDI polling showed a decline in the direction the country was heading. Though not the direct cause by any means, the growing sense that Georgia is going in the wrong direction was likely an enabling factor for…

NGOs in Georgia: Low trust, high expectations? (Part 2)

18 February, 2019

As discussed in the first part of this blog post, the results of CRRC-Georgia’s survey conducted for the Georgian Civil Society Sustainability Initiative (CSSIGE) project in fall 2017 confirmed that both knowledge about NGOs and trust toward them is quite…

NGOs in Georgia: Low trust, high expectations? (Part 1)

11 February, 2019

Over the last decade, people in Georgia have reported rather low levels of trust toward NGOs. At the same time, when asked during surveys to assess specific aspects of NGO activities, the answers have usually been positive. This blog post…

Visa liberalization: How much do people in Georgia know about the conditions of visa-free travel to the EU?

16 October, 2017

CRRC’s previous blog posts have shown that the population of Georgia had rather moderate expectations of the recent visa liberalization with the Schengen zone countries, especially when it comes to the question of how much ordinary people will benefit from it. Europe Foundation’s latest…

Who makes political decisions in Georgia: What people think

15 August, 2017

Bidzina Ivanishvili resigned from the post of prime minister of Georgia on November 20th 2013, and in his own words, “left politics“. Speculation about his continued informal participation in the political decision-making process began even before he resigned and still continues. Some politicians…