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ბლოგიგარემოსადცვითი პრობლემები საქართველოში: მოსახლეობის საფიქრალი?
გაეროს სოციალური განვითარების კვლევითი ინსტიტუტის (UNRISD) თანახმად, „გარემო-პირობების გაუარესება უარყოფითად აისახება ადამიანების ჯანმრთელობაზე, კეთილდღეობასა და არსებობის შესაძლებლობებზე, რასაც დაბინძურებული გარემო და ბუნებრივი რესურსების გამოფიტვა განაპირობებს. ნიადაგის ეროზია, ტყეების გაჩეხვა, ცხოველებისა და მცენარეების გადაშენება ანსახეობ ...
ბლოგიAspects of Georgian Nationalism
In Stephen Jones’ 2013 book, Georgia: A Political History since Independence, he argues that economic issues are more important to the average Georgian than issues related to nationalism. According to Benedict Anderson’s classic exegesis of nationalism, Imagined Communities, a nation is defined as, “an imagined political community ...
ბლოგიBefore and After the Elections: Shifting Public Opinion in Georgia
The Georgian parliamentary elections in October 2012 attracted much international interest and ushered in an important turn in Georgian politics. In 2012 CRRC conducted four waves of a Survey on Political Attitudes in Georgia for the National Democratic Institute (NDI) (funded by the Swedish International development Cooperation Agency-SIDA) in ord ...
ბლოგიVoter Participation and Civic Engagement in Georgia and Armenia
How individuals engage with those around them is a crucial part of civic life, and people in all societies practice certain forms of civic engagement. There are various approaches to measure civic engagement. The OECD refers to voter turnout as the “best existing means of measuring civic and political engagement,” because it considers t ...
ბლოგიHow to buy votes when you can’t buy votes
Today, less than democratic regimes face a serious dilemma – how do you buy votes to win an election without becoming an international pariah. Unfortunately for a society and fortunately for an autocrat, the wheels of power and administrative resources an incumbent regime wields provide ample opportunity to manipulate electoral outcomes throu ...
ბლოგიA taxi driver’s tale, Part 2: The poverty of social status in Georgia
Looking at the association between an individual’s social status and his/her standing in the labor market, the first part of this blog post concluded that higher labor market mobility is characteristic for people with high social status, and that those with high social status have better chances of finding an attractive job. Yet, the question ...
ბლოგიA taxi driver’s tale, Part 1: Social status in the Georgian labor market
Taxi drivers tell perhaps the most telling story of Georgia’s economic transition. They often complain that the transition made their high social status useless, thus pushing them into taxi driving. This often heard and mocked complaint highlights the contrast between what is expected from and what is delivered by the labor market. Taxi drive ...