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Browsing by Author "GUGUSHVILI, Alexi"
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Title:A new chance for Georgian democracy
Author(s):FAIRBANKS JR, Charles H.; GUGUSHVILI, AlexiDate:2013Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Something amazing happened in Georgia’s 1 October 2012 parliamentary elections. The government lost and it gave up power, aside from the now-weakened presidency that it will hold for another year. A new coalition known as ...
Title:Country Report: Georgia
Author(s):GUGUSHVILI, AlexiDate:2012Type of Publication:Technical ReportSeries/Report no.:EUDO Citizenship ObservatoryAbstract:Although Georgia has granted dual citizenship to more than 36,000 people since 2004 and simplified naturalisation requirements, ius sanguinis remains the central principle of the established citizenship regime, and ethnicity ...
Title:Ascriptive Inequality and Life Chances in Georgia
Author(s):GUGUSHVILI, AlexiDate:2012Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:Center for Social Sciences, Applied Social Research ProgrammeAbstract:Using data from the Generations and Gender Survey for the cohorts born from 1926 to 1985 in Georgia, and the linear probability models of higher educational and ISCO 1-2 occupational attainment, I find the large ascriptive ...
Title:The (Non) Reform of the Georgian Pension System, 1991-2011: A brief history and update
Author(s):GUGUSHVILI, AlexiDate:2012Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI)Abstract:This study reviews the factors that played a major role in the development of the old-age pension system in Georgia, 1991-2009 and identifies three main stages in this process. Fiscal constraints and international technical ...
Title:Material Deprivation and the Outcomes of Elections
Author(s):GUGUSHVILI, AlexiDate:2012Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:Center for Social Sciences, Applied Social Research Programme Working PaperAbstract:This study shows that the district level outcomes in the 2012 parliamentary elections in Georgia are significantly associated with the mean household deprivation levels. This effect is statistically significant after ...
Title:Towards a Welfare Research Framework in the Countries of Eastern Partnership Initiative
Author(s):GUGUSHVILI, AlexiDate:2010-01-01Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:The Eastern Partnership (EaP) initiative is a EU project aiming to advance socioeconomic development in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine. To date, virtually no research has been done on comparative ...
Title:Political Economy of Old-age Pension Reforms in Georgia
Author(s):GUGUSHVILI, AlexiDate:2009Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:The paper examines the factors that played a major role in development of the old-age pension system in Georgia. Based on data collected from 1991-2009, this analysis centers on the system’s patterns of development and ...