Academic Scientific JournalsChallenges Of Democratic Sustainability Of Modern Georgian Political Parties: Governance, Hierarchy, Ideological Fragmentation, And Organizational Weakness
Keywords:
party system, party financing, state financing system, Georgia, elections, ideologyAbstract
The article deals with the challenges of democratic sustainability of Georgian political parties in modern Georgia. It tries to reveal the main reasons why, according to some researchers, there is a crisis of intra-party democracy in the modern Georgian party system, why the state’s drive towards democratic development has not been reflected in the organizational structure of parties. The article examines the challenges of leader hierarchy, ideological fragmentation, and organizational fragmentation in modern Georgian political parties using the conceptual framework of the theory of resource dependence and in-depth qualitative research methods.
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