Emergence of Programmatic Party Competition in Hybrid Regimes: Within-Case Comparative Analysis of Georgia

• In Event: Post-Communist Economic, Social, and Political Transformations

Brief Overview

When does high level of electoral contestation turn into programmatic competition? Taking the case of Georgia, I investigate why the change in government in 2012 resulted in the emergence of programmatic competition, while the change in 2003 did not.

Author

• Levan Kakhishvili, BAGSS / University of Bamberg