1st Edition
Party Competition in Hybrid Regimes The Case Study of Post-Soviet Georgia
1. Introduction: What is puzzling about party competition in hybrid regimes? 2. Theorizing party competition beyond democracies: How do parties compete in hybrid regimes? 3. Research design, methods, and data 4. Supply and demand: Do parties offer meaningfully differentiable programmes and are voters aware of the differences? 5. Building a theory for hybrid regimes: How did programmatic party competition emerge in Georgia? 6. Electoral clientelism in Georgia: How does clientelism work and intersect programmatic competition? 7. Conclusion: Party competition beyond Georgia and post-Soviet hybrid regimes
Biography
Levan Kakhishvili is a political scientist specializing in party competition, European politics, and foreign policy analysis. He earned his doctorate from the University of Bamberg and is currently a post-doctoral researcher at European Politics Research Group at ETH Zurich. His work examines programmatic and clientelistic forms of party competition, legislative politics in the European Parliament, domestic determinants of foreign policy behaviour, and EU enlargement.
