2015

[Note: Over the next two weeks, Social Science in the Caucasus will publish the work of six young researchers who entered CRRC-Georgia’s Junior Fellowship Program (JFP) in February 2015.] CRRC’s Junior Fellowship Program (JFP) was launched in 2009 as a Carnegie Corporation initiative…
American Councils, CRRC Georgia and ARISC present the 19th talk in the Spring 2015 Works-in-Progress Series! Chiara Loda, Dublin City University  “Azerbaijan: Discourse and Self-Perception”
Trust in institutions is a widely studied subject in the social sciences – typing ‘trust in institutions’ into Google Scholar yields roughly 2.5 million results. It is generally believed to have multi-directional relationships with different aspects of social life, with high levels of…
This article looks at knowledge and perceptions of NGOs in Georgia.
American Councils, CRRC Georgia and ARISC present the 18th talk in the Spring 2015 Works-in-Progress Series! Claire Pogue Kaiser, University of Pennsylvania, and ARISC Fellow  “Entangled Nationalisms: Language, Autonomy, and the Brezhnev Constitution in the Georgian SSR, 1977-1978”
CRRC is a network of non-governmental, non-profit research organizations which collects, analyzes and publishes policy-relevant empirical data on economic, political, and social trends in the South Caucasus. The organizations’ mission is to promote evidence-based debates on policy issues by providing…
Georgia’s media was once again ranked the most free in Eurasia in Freedom House’s 2015 Freedom of the Press report, released on April 28, 2015. On Freedom House’s scale, in which countries receive a score from 0 (the most free) to…
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and the State Commission on Migration Issues organized a meeting on May 28, 2015, where the representatives of CRRC-Georgia and OECD presented preliminary findings of the research project.