Tuesday, April 30, 2019

Who doesn’t want democracy for Georgia?

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After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Georgia adopted western-style democratic institutions. They have never functioned in a fully democra...
Monday, April 22, 2019

Perceptions of prosecutors’ and judges’ wheelings and dealings

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On January 19th, 2019 the Rustavi 2 TV channel broadcast an investigative documentary Studio Monitor and Radio Liberty produced. The documen...
Monday, April 15, 2019

Georgians are split over the Prosecutor’s Office in Georgia

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On November 3, 2018 Rustavi 2 broadcasted an investigative film created by the Studio Monitor and Radio Liberty about a suspended investigat...
Monday, April 08, 2019

The election environment in minority areas of Georgia is getting worse

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[Note: This article was published together with OC-Media . It was written by Dustin Gilbreath. The views presented in this article do not ne...
Tuesday, April 02, 2019

Georgia’s far-right are anti-Russian but share Russian narratives

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[Note: This article was published in OC-Media . It is available in Georgian, here.   David Sichinava is the Research Director at CRRC-Georgi...
Monday, March 25, 2019

Anti-western discourse dashboard: Tracking what the far-right is talking about on Georgian language Facebook

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Within the framework of the Russian Propaganda Barometer project, funded by EWMI’s ACCESS program, CRRC-Georgia developed an anti-Western di...
Monday, March 18, 2019

Parents think Georgia’s schools are fine. But are students actually learning?

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[Note: This article was originally published here with OC-Media . It is available in Georgian here . This article was written by Meagan Neal...
Monday, March 11, 2019

Georgians support technical inspections of motor vehicles, even given the financial burden

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[Note: This article was originally published on OC-Media . The text is also available in Georgian here . The article was written by David Si...
Monday, March 04, 2019

Choosing a profession: who should decide young people’s career paths?

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Choosing a career path is one of the most important decisions that people make in their life. For some, it might be a complicated and anxiet...
Monday, February 25, 2019

Are there predictors of not knowing and refusing to answer on surveys in Georgia?

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Are there variables that predict who is likely to report “Don’t know” or to refuse to answer survey questions more often in Georgia? This bl...
Monday, February 18, 2019

NGOs in Georgia: Low trust, high expectations? (Part 2)

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As discussed in the first part of this blog post, the results of CRRC-Georgia’s survey conducted for the Georgian Civil Society Sustainabili...
Monday, February 11, 2019

NGOs in Georgia: Low trust, high expectations? (Part 1)

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Over the last decade, people in Georgia have reported rather low levels of trust toward NGOs. At the same time, when asked during surveys to...
Tuesday, February 05, 2019

New Georgian study offers insights on Russian disinformation

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[Note: This article originally appeared in Eurasianet .] A study recently conducted by the Caucasus Research Resource Centers-Georgia conf...
Monday, January 28, 2019

Georgians have more negative attitudes towards the Chinese than other foreigners in Georgia

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Georgia is often famed for its hospitality. While the country is more tolerant of other ethnicities, relative to Armenia and Azerbaijan , i...
Monday, January 21, 2019

Budget priorities are similar to people's spending priorities

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Georgia’s state budget amounted to GEL 12.5 billion in 2018.  The Ministry of Labor, Health and Social Affairs; Ministry of Regional Develo...
Monday, January 14, 2019

Institutions need to replace personality

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[This article was first published on OC-Media .] A fair amount of scholarship indicates that (dis)trust in political institutions provide...
Monday, December 24, 2018

Happy holidays 2018

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This year, CRRC-Georgia’s carried out a wide variety of research on Georgia as well as the South Caucasus. If you’re looking for a social sc...
Friday, November 16, 2018

Georgia’s imagined tolerance

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[Note: This article was originally published in collaboration with OC-Media .] Hate crime regularly makes the news in Georgia. The recent...
Monday, September 17, 2018

Which questions do people tend to respond “Don’t know” to?

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On surveys, sometimes the questions asked are hard for some people to answer. As a result, the answer option “Don’t know” is a regular part ...
Monday, September 10, 2018

Pension reform is underway in Georgia, but only about half of the population is aware of it

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On July 21, 2018 Georgian legislators approved an accumulative pension scheme , after years of discussion. As one of the requirements of the...