23/05/2025
Speaking Out, Staying Out: The Paradox of Political Participation in Georgia 🇬🇪
✍️ S***a Kakabadze
⭕ "This policy memo explores why political engagement in Georgia remains low despite visible public discontent. It examines the roles played by citizens, political parties, public institutions, media, and civil society organizations in either enabling or inhibiting participation."
🔎 This publication was produced with Institut für Europäische Politik (IEP) e.V. in Berlin in the framework of the project “Georgian Civil Society for EU Integration GEO4EU”, supported by the Federal Foreign Office through the Civil Society Cooperation Programme for the Eastern Partnership countries and Russia. Its contents are the sole responsibility of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the donors and the Georgian Institute of Politics.
Institut für Europäische Politik
Auswärtiges Amt
For the last six month, Georgia has been spiraling towards authoritarianism with the one-party parliament curtailing fundamental freedoms with a new law or amendments almost weekly. On the other hand, although