CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2020
| Author | Tevdoradze, Levani |
|---|---|
| Title | Political Economy of the Policies Promoting Minority and Marginalized Community Rights: A Case Study of Georgia and Post-Communist States |
| Summary | Within the four years of 2014-2017, the Georgian Parliament received two progressive policy proposals. In 2014, the Georgian government initiated the anti-discrimination bill to prevent discrimination instances based on gender identity and sexual orientation. In 2017, the Georgian parliamentary members proposed the draft law about drug policy reform, decriminalizing the narcotic substances currently enlisted as limited for circulation. General demands of these policy proposals were similar in nature as both aimed at achieving progressive institutional change to protect extreme minorities of the Georgian populace. However, the anti-discrimination bill was enacted whereas the drug policy reform initiative was suspended. What explains this variation: Why did the Georgian Parliament enact the former while suspending the latter? Can we generalize the attributes of these policy proposals at the broader level of 15 post-communist countries? The thesis applies mixed methods and analyzes the given research questions through the perspective of the scholarly field of the Political Economy of Reforms. In the context of Georgia and within the chosen post-communist countries, the thesis finds external leverage of the international actors, such as the European Union, and the obstructing capacity of the domestic non-institutional veto players as the most cogent explanations for understanding the variation. |
| Supervisor | Corduneanu-Huci, Cristina |
| Department | Public Policy MPA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2020/tevdoradze_levani.pdf |
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