Civil society in authoritarian regimes: governmentpolicytowardsNGOsandNGOsresponses in Georgia in 1994-2012
2018
The research is dedicated to analyse the relationship between the civil society
groups and the two authoritarian regimes in Georgia. Throughout the world the role of
third sector has always been actively discussed. Many country cases such as the
Ukraine, Poland and Serbia have a lot of research dedicated to the analysis of the
relationship of civil society groups and authoritarian systems. However, in case of
Georgia there has not been done such kind of research and for this reason my research
paper will provide a new findings and create a fundamental basis for comparative
analysis of Georgian case with other countries. The research used qualitative method of
semi-structured interviews with 9 key-informants. The empirical findings are divided
into two major parts as the period of research is from 1994 to 2012. First part of the
findings is dedicated on analysing the relationship between civil society groups and the
Shevardnadze government. The second part is dedicated to the Saakashvili government,
which succeeded previous regime in 2003. The findings show that the relationship
between the civil society groups and the two authoritarian regimes was hostile. Civil
society groups in forms of NGOs were major opposition power against both
authoritarian regimes. Regardless of numerous attempts from both regimes to limit the
power, the NGOs were very strong and managed to challenge the authoritarian regimes
resulting in peaceful power transition in both cases. Opposing aims and goals of state
and NGOs made it impossible for the two sides of the conflict to avoid hostile relations
and establish more cooperative relationship.
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