Georgian Democracy

Seizing or Losing the Chance

Datos Bibliográficos

ID6288076
AutoresCharles H Fairbanks (autor de correspondencia)
Año2014
Volumen25
Número1
Páginas154-165
Fecha de publicación2014-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of democracy (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1045-5736 • E-ISSN: 1086-3214
EditorialProject MUSE (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1353/jod.2014.0014
OpenAlexW2068307661
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas4
Referencias citadas2

A year ago, Alexi Gugushvili and I described Georgia's October 2012 election and the events surrounding it as "amazing," "truly remarkable," and "nearly unheard of." Is Georgian political life still unfolding in such an exceptional fashion, or is there a "new normal"—and if so, is it friendlier to liberal democracy, or fraught with problems for it? It may be that electoral democracy is becoming more routine in Georgia, but something is missing: Robust democratic opposition, and with it a sense that there is some continuing structure that contains and organizes competition among rival parties. Parties, elections, laws, and institutions still define the road to liberal democracy, and Georgians must lose their fear of traveling that road

Competition (biology · Democracy · Georgian · Liberal democracy · Opposition (politics · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Law · Philosophy · Political Conflict and Governance · Post-Soviet Geopolitical Dynamics