{"id":12915,"date":"2026-06-19T16:31:39","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T16:31:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arisc.org\/?p=12915"},"modified":"2026-06-19T16:31:39","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T16:31:39","slug":"wip-julie-george-popular-political-preferences-applying-global-models-to-the-caucasian-context","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arisc.org\/?p=12915","title":{"rendered":"WiP: Julie George &#8220;Popular Political Preferences: Applying Global Models to the Caucasian Context&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">ARISC and CRRC Georgia are happy to present the 7th session of the Spring\/Summer 2026 Tbilisi Works-in-Progress series!<br><br><strong>Popular Political Preferences: Applying Global Models to the Caucasian Context<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Julie George<\/strong><br>Queens College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Wednesday, June 24, 2026 at 18:30 Tbilisi time (10:30am US eastern)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This week\u2019s session will be held in hybrid in-person at CRRC Georgia and virtually via this Zoom link: https:\/\/us06web.zoom.us\/meeting\/register\/YttMZjH6SLGQh6RPD69v2Q<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What are the key factors that affect voters\u2019 priorities and preferences? Political parties in the Caucasus, scholars have noted, have typically been based on personalities and less on ideological positions. Recent work, however, has pointed to the solidification of political identities in Georgia and Armenia based on geopolitical preferences, as well as economic and other pragmatic concerns. Considering a public opinion poll conducted in Georgia, this project, co-authored with Jesse Driscoll and Dan Maliniak, provides insights into the demand-side of Georgian politics, contemplating the relative power of populism and polarization, within the larger contexts of global trends in mass-level political behavior.<br><br>Julie A. George is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Queens College and the Graduate Center, CUNY and Adjunct Associate Professor at Columbia University. She studies and writes about, among other things, politics, identity, and governance in the Caucasus, especially Georgia. &nbsp;She serves on the Editorial Boards of <em>Caucasus Studies, Communist and Postcommunist Studies<\/em>, and <em>Nationalities Papers<\/em>.<br><br>**********************<br>Works-in-Progress is an ongoing academic discussion series based in Tbilisi, Georgia, that takes place at the CRRC office at Chavchavadze Ave. 5 and online. All of the talks are free and open to the public.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In observation of the spirit of the Chatham House Rule, the talks will not be recorded, and we courteously request that the other participants refrain from recording and\/or distributing recordings as well or citing anything expressed therein in the press without explicit permission. The opinions expressed in WiP talks are those of the speakers alone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ARISC and CRRC Georgia are happy to present the 7th session of the Spring\/Summer 2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,103],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arisc-events","category-georgia-events"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arisc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arisc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arisc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arisc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arisc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12915"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/arisc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12916,"href":"https:\/\/arisc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12915\/revisions\/12916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arisc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arisc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arisc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}