From Soviet to contemporary transparency: social changes in Georgia

Autor

  • Tatia Kekelia Ilia State University

Słowa kluczowe:

transparency, public sphere, private sphere, transition, development

Abstrakt

The present article examines the practical effects of the new social paradigm of transparency on the Georgian society. While contemporary Georgia affirms a clear European, modern orientation, there is a dark side to this development which needs to be addressed duly. This study examines the challenges that the new social changes bring: it explains in what ways the advent of transparency puts the functioning of the public sphere under risk. To explore the forms that both: transition and transparency assume, a complex set of qualitative methods was used including case studies, media analysis, focus group interviews and expert interviews.

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Opublikowane

2018-06-18

Jak cytować

Kekelia, T. (2018). From Soviet to contemporary transparency: social changes in Georgia. European Journal of Transformation Studies, 6(1), 43–58. Pobrano z https://czasopisma.bg.ug.edu.pl/index.php/journal-transformation/article/view/8516

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