What makes political party success in Georgia? Finances, Ideology and Organizational Structure

Abstract

In Georgia, the issue of financing political parties from the state budget has always been a subject of discussion. Since 2008, the funding of parties from the state budget has increased, the last changes in this regard were implemented in July 2020, despite a number of changes made in the aforementioned law, the idea of state funding remained unchanged during the research period.The  aim  of  the  article is  to determine the type of correlation between the Diversification of finances of parties, their idelogy platforms and organization strucutre  based on the example of the 2008-2020 parliamentary elections. This study is based on the resource dependency theory. According to this theory, since state funding is increasingly available to political parties in democratic countries, parties become more and more dependent on public finances, they become focused on maintaining said funding, which creates new challenges in party politics. The article uses qualitative research methods to answer research questions, namely, secondary data analysis, document analysis, and a comparison method that compares the institutional capacities of financially dependent and independent political parties in the study. The study includes a survey of experts, which in turn facilitated an in-depth study of the topic. The introduction discusses the aims and objectives of the research, as well as the design and methodological foundations of the research. The first chapter of the paper reviews literature on the theoretical framework, such as the role of State funding in Electrical advantage of Parties. Chapters two and three include an overview of empirical data and key research findings. The conclusion of the paper presents the findings of the research. also The article discusse the impact of ideological platforms of Georgian political parties on their financial income and electoral success.