CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2025
| Author | Beraia, Tata |
|---|---|
| Title | Georgia's 2024 Election Subversion Campaign: Strategies Used in Electoral Fraud |
| Summary | The study investigates how electoral fraud was used to subvert Georgia’s 2024 parliamentary elections, contributing to democratic backsliding and undermining the country’s European integration path. The study addresses the question: How were the 2024 election results manipulated, and what strategies did the ruling party employ? A qualitative methodology is used, combining theoretical literature analysis with document review, media investigations, and expert interviews. The findings reveal a combination of conventional and novel fraud strategies, including vote buying, coercion, misuse of electronic technologies, and the creation of “voter dossiers” using unauthorized state data. Notably, manipulation occurred mainly during the pre-election campaign through legislative, administrative, and financial resource mobilization. These findings highlight how hybrid regimes like Georgia’s increasingly employ sophisticated methods to retain power while formally preserving democratic institutions. |
| Supervisor | Batory, Agnes |
| Department | Public Policy MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2025/beraia_tata.pdf |
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