CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2013
| Author | Sholderer, Olga |
|---|---|
| Title | Factors Defining Successful Police Reform: Cases of Georgia and Armenia |
| Summary | This study is dedicated to the cases of police reform aimed at elimination of corruption, being one of the crucial to the security of the society. It considers two cases, which shared similar problems with corruption in the past but show different outcomes after the undertaken police reform, - Georgia and Armenia. The study answers the question why the police reform is more successful in Georgia than in Armenia. It includes analysis of legal documents, external reports, as well as academic studies. The main conclusion is that the primary factor which defined the outcome of the undertaken police reform is a change of elite which took place in Georgia during the Rose Revolution, but failed to do so in a revolutionary movement in Armenia, and relations with the losers of the reforms. Other factors also contributed to the outcome of the police reform, but could not be considered primary as they could be explained by the change of the elites and lack of constraints posed by the losers of the police reform; among them: involvement of foreign actors, content of the reform and the severity of corruption before the reform. |
| Supervisor | Laura von Daniels, PhD |
| Department | Political Science MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2013/sholderer_olga.pdf |
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