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A taxi driver’s tale, Part 1: Social status in the Georgian labor market
Taxi drivers tell perhaps the most telling story of Georgia’s economic transition. They often complain that the transition made their high social status useless, thus pushing them into taxi driving....
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A taxi driver’s tale, Part 2: The poverty of social status in Georgia
Looking at the association between an individual’s social status and his/her standing in the labor market, the first part of this blog post concluded that higher labor market mobility is characteristic...
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Well-being of the elderly in the South Caucasus: A problem today, a bigger...
The world population is getting older, and this trend will likely continue as a result of decreasing mortality and declining fertility. International organizations predict that the aging of the...
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Premarital sex and women in Georgia
Conservative traditions have always been strong in Georgian society, and especially so when it comes to relationships. Nonetheless, men are often allowed and even encouraged to engage in premarital...
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Getting to the streets: Who is more inclined to protest in Georgia?
While elections bring citizens to vote on a regular basis thus fulfilling the minimal ̶ necessary but not sufficient ̶ condition for democracy, as set out by Schumpeter in 1942, petitions,...
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[This is a guest blog post by Anar Valiyev, Azer Babayev, Hajar Huseynova and Khalida Jafarova, prepared in the framework of the Research Beyond the Ivory Tower project of the Norwegian Institute of...
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On courts and trust: Perceptions of the judiciary in Georgia
As in many countries in transition, reform of the judiciary has been a major issue in Georgia. The country has gone through a number of reforms since the early 1990s. After the bitter September 2012...
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Tracing regional inequalities in the Georgian education system (Part 1)
It has been almost ten years since Unified Entry Examinations (UEE) for university admissions were introduced in Georgia, and the introduction of UEE has been named by the World Bank as one of the most...
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Tracing regional inequalities in the Georgian education system (Part 2)
The first part of this blog post described the regional distribution of 2014 Unified Entrance Exam (UEE) mean scores in Georgia. Here in the second part, we look at applicants’ gender and location (as...
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Deserving to be beaten and tolerating violence: Attitudes towards violence...
Domestic violence counts for a considerable part of violence against women worldwide, with as many as 38% of all murders of women in 2013 being committed by intimate partners, compared with only 6% of...
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Georgian youth: EU aspirations, but lacking tolerance
Public opinion polls consistently show that the majority of Georgians want to be a part of the European Union. Young people in Georgia are especially pro-Western, often claiming to share the same...
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Kundera revisited: Are Armenians longing to leave their country because of...
Although many literature lovers take their favorite novels’ quotes for granted, a hybrid literature lover and social scientist cannot resist but putting literature’s postulates to data scrutiny. In one...
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The CRRC’s 500th post and thoughts about the future of social research
By Hans GutbrodWhen we started this blog, quite a few years ago, we published a few posts, and didn't tell anyone about it. We weren't sure whether the venture would work – and whether it was a good...
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Neighborhoods and neighbors in urban and rural Georgia
Living in either a rural or urban area has both costs and benefits –there are a number of contrasts in lifestyle, access to goods or services, and information. This blog post looks at how urban and...
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Gender roles in Azerbaijan: A cross-generational continuum
While the choice of pink versus blue has come to symbolize how parents and other adults establish a gendered order throughout youngsters’ childhood, the construction of gender roles dynamically...
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The political climate in Georgia, 2012-2014: Increased nihilism or room for...
In October 2012, the Georgian Dream Coalition (GDC) obtained 54.97% of the party list vote, winning the majority of seats in Parliamentary elections. The United National Movement (UNM), then the ruling...
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In the know about NGOs in Georgia
The civil society sector in Georgia is populated by a wide diversity of actors from national chapters of well-known international NGOs like Transparency International – Georgia to local NGOs such as...
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NGOs and the Georgian public's expectations
The so-called third sector which consists largely of non-governmental organizations is diverse in Georgia, with organizations focusing on issues ranging from LGBT rights to political party development....
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Ethnic minorities, Georgians, and foreign policy orientation
Georgia’s prominent West-ward political orientation has been demonstrated numerous times, especially in the period following the 2004 Rose Revolution. The signing of the Association Agreement with the...
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Under surveillance: Public perceptions of safety while talking on the phone...
Illegal government surveillance is an issue which has been intensely debated in recent years in Georgia. Surveillance related legislation was adopted in 2010 and allowed law enforcement agencies to...
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