Publications

The Gender Equality Ranking of Political Parties of Georgia produces its assessment in three dimensions – Electoral, Institutional and Programmatic. Each of these dimensions consists of a set of indicators to which pre-determined weights are assigned and the resulting aggregate can be used to create a common index of gender equality in the political parties. The first ranking of gender equality among the political parties of Georgia was produced in 2014. This is the third ranking and it covers the year of 2017.

This article is a brief summary of the report on the expert roundtable: “International Support to Political Party Development – Reflection on Strategies, Achievements, and Challenges” organized by the Eastern European Centre for Multiparty Democracy (EECMD) with a financial support of the Embassy of Kingdom of the Netherlands to Georgia on May 11, 2018. At the roundtable, representatives from foreign aid community, political parties, and academia presented their views on the trends of democratization, political party development and evolution both globally and in the wider region.

The influence of money in politics represents one of the most debated issues in democracy assistance communities and between politicians. While essential for political competition, the growth of the role of political funding in electoral processes is creating, in the eyes of many observers, serious challenges to democratic process. This paper focuses on Eastern Europe and the EU’s Eastern neighborhood, but some of the ideas and problems discussed here may be applicable elsewhere. It addresses some of the regulatory, institutional and cultural aspects of political financing and discusses potential reforms and necessary paradigm shifts that will be helpful in reinvigorating and strengthening democratic institutions.

The analytical note “EECMD Roundtable on Decentralisation in Ukraine and Odesa Oblast” is written by Dr. Sierhiei Sakhanienko, expert from Odesa Regional Institute for Public Administration. It summarizes the arguments and propositions put forward by the experts during the EECMD roundtable in Odesa on 16 November 2017. It questions, among others, the economic, political and policy rationales for the decentralization debate, further effects of decentralization on political parties and Ukrainian political system as well as the challenges it represents to local actors.

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The analytical note “EECMD Roundtable on Decentralisation in Ukraine and Lviv Oblast” is written by Dr. Maryan Lopata and Dr. Yevhen Laniuk, experts from the Centre of Innovation Research. It is a summary of arguments and propositions elaborated by the experts during the EECMD roundtable in Lviv on 24 November 2017. The publication dwells upon, among others, the gains and disadvantages of the decentralization process, the effects of the decentralization reform on political parties and Ukrainian political system as well as the specific features of the decentralization process in the Lviv Oblast.

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This essay, written for those who are thinking about the new approaches to organizing political parties and movements, outlines some of the potential reform paths in internal party democracy. While some of the ideas presented below may find their applications elsewhere, they are primarily written with an eye on relatively young democracies or partially free countries, that have made some tangible achievements in democratization (such as for example, generally free and fair elections) but retain some of the basic features of the authoritarian systems from which they have graduated not very long time ago (weakly institutionalized, personality based political parties and dominant party systems for example).

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This publication is a combination of four policy papers and is commissioned by the Netherlands Institute for Multiparty Democracy (NIMD) and OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities (OSCE-HCNM). The publication is based on research carried out by the professionals of relevant fields and addresses important challenges of the national minorities’ social-political integration in Georgia.