Achieving meaningful policy reform can be a devilishly difficult task in any political system, but especially so in countries with weak traditions of democracy, writes Christopher Walker, introducing a new report, Democracy Think Tanks in Action: Translating Research into Policy …

Nothing becomes power quite like the leaving of it?

“The best test for democracy is how a government leaves,” says a leading Georgian analyst.

Some ten years after Georgia’s Rose Revolution catapulted Mikheil Saakashviliand his United National Movement to power, they are …

“About 10,000 people gathered Friday in front of Tbilisi’s parliament building to hear President Mikheil Saakashvili and members of his United National Movement party, or UNM, bash Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili,” writes Tbilisi-based journalist Paul Rimple:  

The last time …

Georgia’s new government “could still go the way of …… previous ones,” The Economist cautions, noting that the Caucasian republic “needs more effective checks on state power than it has had in previous years, in the form of political …

“Something amazing happened in Georgia’s 1 October 2012 parliamentary elections. The government lost and it gave up power, aside from the now-weakened presidency that it will hold for another year,” say two leading analysts:

A new coalition known as Georgian …

In October 2012, Georgia held parliamentary elections whose outcome caught most observers by surprise. Since achieving a peaceful alternation of power through competitive elections last fall, Georgia has faced difficult obstacles to developing durable democratic institutions.

Despite its …

A front row seat in observing the changes in post-Communist Europe over the past two decades allowed the National Endowment for Democracy’s Nadia Diuk to draw some conclusions on political change, transition, youth, and identity for her recently published …

A series of arrests of former government officials in Georgia has prompted Western governments to advise Prime Minister Bidzinia Ivanishvili to avoid political score-settling against members of the opposition United National Movement led by President Mikheil Saakashvili. The arrests …

Is Georgia’s first peaceful transfer of power “a good deal for pretty much everyone,” raising the possibility that the country “could once again punch way above its weight in global affairs”? Will the transition set a precedent “in a …

Georgia’s democratic gains since the 2003 Rose Revolution are safe, billionaire premier-elect Bidzina Ivanishvili insisted today.

In an interview with the Financial Times, the leader of the Georgian Dream alliance that defeated Mikheil Saakashvili’s United National Movement in this …