2015

American Councils, CRRC Georgia and ARISC present the 9th in the Spring 2015 Works-in-Progress Series! Chris Anderson, PhD Candidate in Political Science, University of Iowa “Ethnocentrism and the use of force in Georgia, 1990 to 2014”
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. For the first time in 2013,…
This blog post looks at how urban and rural populations in Georgia relate with their neighbors, using data from the 2014 Volunteering and civic participation in Georgia survey.
When we started this blog, quite a few years ago, we published a few posts, and didn’t tell anyone about it. We weren’t sure whether the venture would work – and whether it was a good fit for ourselves. Now,…
Although many literature lovers take their favorite novels’ quotes for granted, a hybrid literature lover and social scientist cannot resist but putting literature’s postulates to data scrutiny. In one of his most famous works, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan…
American Councils, CRRC Georgia and ARISC present the 8th talk in the Spring 2015 Works-in-Progress Series! Martine Brouillette, University of Poitiers, France ‘From Discourse to Practice: The EU’s Migration Management Strategy in Neighboring Third Countries’
American Councils, CRRC Georgia and ARISC present the rescheduled 4th talk in the Spring 2015 Works-in-Progress Series! Jeremy Johnson, University of Michigan Performing Soviet Literacies in the Transcaucasian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic
Public opinion polls consistently show that the majority of Georgians want to be a part of the European Union. Young people in Georgia are especially pro-Western, often claiming to share the same values as their peers in the West.