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Gossink, K. (2012)

Two Decades, Two Theories

Bachelor thesis | Politicologie (BSc)
In two periods since the early nineties, first under presidents Shevardnadze and then under president Saakashvili, democratic progress in Georgia stalled. For the Georgian case the explanatory merit of two theories that attempt to explain democratisation is assessed . Carothers’ revised transition paradigm better explains the stagnation of democratic progress in Georgia in the Shevardnadze era, while presidential power theory is better at explaining that stagnation in the period of Saakashvili's presidential terms.
Georgia
Democratisation
Presidential power
Carothers
Shevardnadze
Saakashvili
Author
Gossink, K.
Faculty
Faculty of Social & Behavioural Sciences
Supervisors
Spirova, M.S.
ECTS Credits
15
Language
en