Comparing Azeri Attitudes toward Political Participation in Azerbaijan and Georgia

Author(s): Joshua Noonan
Editor(s): Iris Kempe, Matthias Neumann, Robert Orttung, Jeronim Perovic, Lili Di Puppo
Series: Caucasus Analytical Digest (CAD)
Issue: 17
Pages: 13-16
Publisher(s): Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zurich; Jefferson Institute, Washington D.C.; Heinrich Böll Foundation, Tbilisi; Research Centre for East European Studies, University of Bremen
Publication Year: 2010

Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, Azerbaijan and Georgia have followed very different paths of development. Georgia has remade itself into a more transparent, open, and democratically-based country, whereas Azerbaijan has continued the post-Soviet tradition of single party plus rule. The historic, political, and social experiences of Azeris in Azerbaijan and Azeris in Georgia have been quite different. The project summarized here seeks to compare the attitudes towards political participation for Azerbaijani minorities in Georgia with the attitudes of Azerbaijanis in Azerbaijan in order to find if and why these attitudes diverge. This article describes and analyzes the key differences and similarities found between the sampled populations of ethnic Azeris in Azerbaijan and Georgia.

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