2014
Calling 2014 turbulent for the world seems almost euphemistic. The world witnessed renewed Russian revanchism with the war in Ukraine and annexation of Crimea, the emergence of a highly successful militant Islamic organization, Islamic State in Syria and Iraq, and the persistently tense situation…
Robert Putnam’s 1993 work Making Democracy Work: Civic Traditions in Modern Italy marked a seminal moment in the development of institutionalism. Putnam’s exhaustive study of the relationship between the governed and governing in the Italian regions contained the discovery that public opinion…
A number of fields, including economics, sociology and psychology, study issues related to job satisfaction. Using CRRC Caucasus Barometer (CB) 2013 data, this blog post looks at how job satisfaction differs by job profile.
American Councils, CRRC and ARISC present the 14th and final talk in the Fall 2014 Works-in-Progress Series! Alexi Gugushvili and Peter Kabachnik ‘Stalin’s Russia vs. Georgia’s Stalin: Similarities and Differences in Public Attitudes’
State capacity is a concept which has gained wide interest from political scientists in recent years as an important concept for economic development and regime classification, yet it still lacks agreed upon definitions and indicators. Its definitions vary, with different…
American Councils, CRRC and ARISC present the 13th talk in the Fall 2014 Works-in-Progress Series!
Dustin Gilbreath, CRRC-Georgia
State/party capacity and constraints on state action: Operationalizing and indexing state capacity in Georgia and Armenia Wednesday, December 10, 2014 at 6:30pm…
State/party capacity and constraints on state action: Operationalizing and indexing state capacity in Georgia and Armenia Wednesday, December 10, 2014 at 6:30pm…