Social Science in the Caucasus

A string of social science snapshots, remarks, observations, data from the South Caucasus.

Monday, August 29, 2016

Trends in the data: A majority of the population of Georgia now uses the internet

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Internet use is on the rise worldwide, and while internet penetration is increasing the world over, in some countries still relatively small...
Thursday, August 25, 2016

Making Votes Count: Statistical Anomalies in Election Statistics

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[Note: In order to help monitor the fidelity of the October 2016 parliamentary election results, CRRC-Georgia will carry out quantitative a...
Monday, August 22, 2016

Making Votes Count: Logical Inconsistencies in Voting Records

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In order to help monitor the fidelity of the October 2016 parliamentary election results, CRRC-Georgia will carry out quantitative analysis ...
Monday, August 15, 2016

What can CRRC’s Caucasus Barometer survey tell us about internal migration in Georgia?

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According to existing estimates, the stock of internal migrants is much larger than the stock of international migrants worldwide. In Georg...
Monday, August 08, 2016

Trends in the Data: Public support for democracy is slowly waning in Georgia (Part 2)

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Analysis of survey findings from the last few years, presented in the first part of this blog post, shows that public support for democr...
Monday, August 01, 2016

A New CRRC-Georgia/PROLoG Report: Legal Professionals’ Views on the Legal System

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CRRC-Georgia’s report The Judicial System in Georgia: Views of Legal Professionals was published on 11 July, 2016. The report details the ...
Monday, July 25, 2016

Civic engagement in Georgia

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Participation in various forms of social life can help people solve important social problems without the government’s involvement, which wi...
Monday, July 18, 2016

Environmental issues in Georgia: a concern for all?

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[Note: This post was first published on Friday, July 15th at the Clarion .] By Sacha Bepoldin The United Nations Research Institute for ...
Monday, July 11, 2016

Who should Georgia’s closest economic partners be?

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Reports on Georgia’s shifting public opinion of Russia and the West have been widely discussed on this blog and elsewhere . Focusing specif...
Monday, July 04, 2016

How Georgia became an upper-middle income country

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A year ago, on this blog, we took a look at how Georgia had likely become an upper-middle income country because of the 2014 census. On July...
Tuesday, June 28, 2016

CRRC’s Fourth Annual Methodological Conference: Research for Development in the South Caucasus

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CRRC’s fourth annual Methodological Conference took place on June 24 and 25, 2016 in Tbilisi. Over 50 participants representing numerous in...
Monday, June 20, 2016

Perceptions of surveillance in Georgia: 2013 – 2015

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In May, 2015 CRRC published a blog post about public perceptions of surveillance in Georgia . It showed that people in Georgia were concern...
Monday, June 13, 2016

Changes in the level of trust in social and political institutions in Georgia

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The population’s level of trust in government and other institutions can be affected by many factors, and of course, may change over time. ...
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Monday, June 06, 2016

Attitudes towards public opinion polls in Georgia (Part 2)

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CRRC/NDI’s public opinion polls become the subject of intense discussions after the results of every wave of the survey are released, with ...
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