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The politics of culture and identity in post-communist states: A new political cleavage in Georgia?

Abstract

The role of ideology in political competition in the former Soviet Union is under researched. This paper uses public opinion data to identify and investigate patterns of political competition in Georgia. I find voters’ preferences on a range of issues to be underpinned by a latent cultural dimension of political ideology that concerns how citizens view the relationship between the Georgian nation and the rest of the world. I go on to present evidence that this dimension is, at least to some extent, both embedded in social structure and reflected in voting patterns.

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Wheatley, Jonathan M.

Oxford Brookes departments

Department of Social Sciences

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Year of publication: 2020
Date of RADAR deposit: 2020-02-19

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