Social Science in the Caucasus

Note: This article first appeared on the  Caucasus Data Blog , a joint effort of CRRC Georgia and OC Media. It was written by Givi Silagadze...

Professionalism, honesty, and fair competition are important in any institution. Yet, incidents involving corruption , nepotism and/or a la...

[This is a guest blog post by Anar Valiyev, Azer Babayev, Hajar Huseynova and Khalida Jafarova, prepared in the framework of the Research Be...

Corruption and paying a bribe was not uncommon in the former Soviet Union. However, following the collapse of the USSR, rampant corruption ...

Recently, a nuanced article in an Indian magazine discussed "How Georgia Did It" to get rid of corruption. This has, of course, ...

The Mobilizing Action Against Corruption (MAAC) effort in Armenia, led by Casals, has come to an end. We undertook four surveys for this...

This past summer, Freedom House launched the 14th edition of its Nations in Transit ( NIT ) report. The publication comprehensively monitors...

On March 11, 2011, the participants of CRRC-Azerbaijan’s Junior Research Fellowship Program (JRFP) competed for the best PowerPoint presenta...

Our 300th post is by Ani Navasardyan , from the Civilitas Foundation in Armenia, who was working with our Georgian and Regional office for a...

According to Transparency International’s recently released 2010 Barometer, rates of corruption in the world are rising. Six out of ten resp...

On October 26 Transparency International released the results of the 2010 Corruption Perception Index (CPI). The CPI is a measure of dome...

The recently updated database of the World Governance Indicators (WGI) shows an improvement in Armenia’s ranking in political stability, fig...

In August 2010, the Fellowship Selection Committee of the Junior Research Fellowship Program (JRFP)-Azerbaijan had the difficult task of sel...

Freedom House has just released its Nations in Transit report for the year 2010. The report attempts to quantify democratic development in...

Transparency International (TI) released its 2009 Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) on 17 November, and Georgia’s score rose slightly to 4....

2008 Armenia Corruption Survey of Households report highlights the main findings of USAID MAAC Activity Corruption Survey of Households. The...

(We today noticed that we forgot to post this earlier -- apologies!) The Heritage Foundation provides visitors with the 2008 Index of Econom...

Yesterday the Heritage Foundation released the Index of Economic Freedom 2009 . The Index is published annually by the Heritage Foundation t...