Political Accommodation for Democratic Stability in the Ethnically Divided and Post-Soviet Georgia

Mikheil Shavtvaladze

Abstract


The prospected case study attempts to investigate causal relationship between democratic stability and political accommodation in a multiethnic post-Soviet country. For this aim, the major focus of the thesis is to explore those conflict resolution approaches that can ensure better political accommodation leading to more democratic stability in post-Soviet Georgia. By focusing mostly on the last twenty-five-year Georgia’s post-Soviet political dynamics, conclusions drawn from the preliminary analysis demonstrate that compared to centralizing and majoritarian tactics employed thus far by the Georgia’s state since the restoration of its independence, political accommodation through consensual approaches have a better promising potential for stabilizing democracy in Georgia as a result of better accommodating diversities and resolve peacefully the existing ethno-territorial disputes.


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Georgia, political accommodation, democratic stability, consociationalism, integration, majoritarianism

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