Authoritarian Stability in the South Caucasus: Voting Preferences, Autocratic Responses and Regime Stability in Armenia and Georgia

ISBN-13: 9780367518202 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 128 str.

Matteo Fumagalli; Koba Turmanidze

Opis

Drawing on on research conducted on Georgia and Armenia the book explores how regimes respond to voter preferences and how they adjust their policies accordingly. The volume was originally published as a special issue of the journal Caucasus Survey.

Spis treści

1. Taking partly free voters seriously: autocratic response to voter preferences in Armenia and Georgia Matteo Fumagalli and Koba Turmanidze 2. The self-defeating game: how state capacity and policy choice affect political survival Dustin Gilbreath and Koba Turmanidze 3. Elections and election fraud in Georgia and Armenia Dustin Gilbreath and Sona Balasanyan 4. Retrospective voting in Georgia: does the government’s past performance matter? Giorgi Babunashvili 5. Promises, lies and the accountability trap. Evidence from a survey experiment in Armenia and Georgia Koba Turmanidze 6. Balancing the three pillars of stability in Armenia and Georgia RatShubladze and Tsisana Khundadze

O autorze

Matteo Fumagalli is Senior Lecturer in International Relations at the University of St Andrews, UK

Koba Turmanidze is Director of the Caucasus Resource Research Centre in Tbilisi, Georgia