Social Science in the Caucasus

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

[Note: This is a guest post from Natia  Mestvirishvili , a Researcher at International Centre for Migration Policy Development (ICMPD) and f...

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

In his book Polling and the Public Herbert Asher notes that findings of public opinion polls have significant effects on citizens’ attitud...

David Gale, who had served as Political Officer at the British Embassy since 2007, recently wrote down some of his thoughts upon leaving Geo...

There have been three main protests since 2007 that have demanded the Georgian president, Mikhail Saakhashvili, to step down. These three pr...

This recently was on PhD Comics . So true.  What would one add for the Caucasus? Any ideas? We should translate this and circulate.

Is Georgia a democracy? In previous blog posts we tracked various indicators, including the Freedom House Index. But what do Georgians thems...

Public opinion found its way into a major report by the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR), but through the back door. The chart ...

Recently, as a result of the football diplomacy between Armenia and Turkey, an opinion poll was conducted in both Turkey and Armenia to gaug...

Georgian IPResearch (first time we heard of them, actually) conducted a phone poll between Aug.25 and Sept.2. 450 respondents were questione...

Given the recent craze over UEFA football and the large number of diehard football fans across the Caucasus, I think the question about t...

Yet another survey has been sent around as a PDF in Georgia. The survey attempted to measure the postelection mood in Tbilisi. According to ...

Recently, the Georgian Times published an article on a poll recently conducted by GORBI of Georgian Troops in Iraq. According to the artic...

Sometimes it's worth clicking on those Gmail links. " Ask 500 " is a website in beta, the web version of a straw poll. Polling...

Readers may recall that we voiced some concern with regards to exit polls. Here is a fascinating account, first-hand, by a reputed pollster...

With the election in Georgia approaching fast, polls are beginning to appear every week. Unfortunately, many of these polls are taken at fac...

With upcoming elections in Georgia, the attention is back on a theme that otherwise often gets neglected: what does the Georgian electorate ...

Pre-election polling has become an increasingly big business in the South Caucasus. The Armenian elections, scheduled for May 12, again illu...

IRI has released a new poll chock full of data (to see all their polls, click here ). They interviewed 1500 Georgian voters over the age of...