CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2015
| Author | Giorgadze, Shalva |
|---|---|
| Title | The Influence of Political Culture on Political Elite: The Case of Post-Soviet Georgia |
| Summary | The research aims to determine the correlation of political culture and the political elite and bring more clarity in the study of political environment in Georgia. It will be focused on the post-Soviet period and make a study of the role of political culture in political communication and ability or willingness of the political elites to cooperate and share power. In order to provide a more comprehensive understanding of Caucasus, as the region that has unique political diversity, the last chapter of the thesis will also cover comparative aspects of political processes in Georgia, Azerbaijan and Armenia. The research question that the thesis is going to address is how political culture influences the political elite formation and elite culture in Georgia. The thesis will analyze formation of political culture in post-soviet Georgia and how it has changed throughout the past few decades. Also, thesis will discuss the issues of formation of the elite and their willingness to communicate and reach consensus, followed by a discussion of the correlation between the political culture and the elites. The choice fell on this topic since it would be interesting to see how political culture interacts with elitism, and how they are affecting the current move to a democratic regime in newly-independent post-Soviet state like Georgia. It is important to understand the role of political culture on political elite and the role of political elite in creation of democratic (or non-democratic) political institutions and processes. Political elites remain a crucial force which drives country into different trajectories. In the case of post-Soviet countries, the impact of elites is much more significant since the regimes themselves are more unstable, while the society may easily be drawn to the verge of changing their political orientations. Newly emerged post-Soviet governments, including Georgian ones, are characterized with elitist governments ruled by narrow interest of groups who act in accordance with their private interests. |
| Supervisor | Pelinka Anton |
| Department | Political Science MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2015/giorgadze_shalva.pdf |
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