Democracy and autocracy in Eurasia
Subtitle: Georgia in transition
By: Irakly Areshidze.
Publisher: Michigan State University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: East Lansing
Language: eng
Number of pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9780870137907
Subjects: Democracy -- Georgia (Republic); Elections -- Georgia (Republic); Georgia (Republic) -- Politics and government -- 1991-; Georgia (Republic) -- History -- Rose Revolution, 2003
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Georgia's first democratic opening : independence and the failure of Gamsakhurdia's rule; title: Georgia's second democratic opening : Shevardnadze's constitutional founding and the rise of Zhvania's "Young Reformers"; title: Georgia's third democratic opening : Gamkrelidze and the collapse of the CUG; title: 2002 local government elections and Zhvania's political rebirth; title: Parties prepare for the parliamentary elections while the NGO community and Rustavi 2 prepare for the revolution; title: Failure of the united opposition and failure of the Baker formula; title: The final stretch : the fall campaign; title: The Rose Revolution; title: Dangers of new authoritarianism; title: Saakashvili's constitution and legal one-man rule; title: The rule of law and the rule of men; title: Elections and imbalanced governance; title: Media freedom, or lack thereof; title: Civil society, illusionary and real.