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The Post-Rose Revolution Reforms as a Case of Misguided Policy Transfer and Accidental Democratisation?

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  • Michael Dobbins

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This article traces political and institutional developments in the Republic of Georgia after the Rose Revolution. Particular focus is placed on efforts by Georgian policy-makers to align Georgian political institutions with Western models. Drawing on the concept of policy transfer, the author demonstrates various pitfalls in this process. Based on the gathered evidence, it appears that Georgian policy-makers engaged in various processes of ‘incomplete transfer’, compounded by a lack of understanding or deliberately false conceptions of Western institutions. Despite democratic rhetoric and interlinkages with the West, Georgia moved to a novel form of ‘hyper-presidentialism’ and dismantled institutional checks and balances. Hence, the Rose Revolution initially served to reinforce the already existing institutions of ‘patronal presidentialism’ through a series of misguided institutional modifications. The author also discusses the outcome of the recent parliamentary and presidential elections, which may have ironically and accidentally further democratised the country.

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  • Michael Dobbins, 2014. "The Post-Rose Revolution Reforms as a Case of Misguided Policy Transfer and Accidental Democratisation?," Europe-Asia Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 66(5), pages 759-774, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:ceasxx:v:66:y:2014:i:5:p:759-774
    DOI: 10.1080/09668136.2014.910941
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