Koba Turmanidze

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Koba is the President of CRRC Georgia.

Georgian Dream celebrates exit poll results in October 2021. Photo: Mariam Nikuradze/OC Media

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Datablog | Is People’s Power designed to make Georgian Dream look good?

by Koba Turmanidze

•3 min read

A CRRC Georgia study found that positioning Georgian Dream as more moderate than its spin-off group, People’s Power, increased support for the ruling party. A popular study suggests that when a person goes for a date, they will be more liked if they take a similar, but slightly less attractive companion with them. Likewise, political parties often look better for their voters when they position themselves against a similar, but less appealing opponent. This blog shows how the same principl

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Datablog | How financially literate are people in Georgia?

by Koba Turmanidze

•3 min read

CRRC Georgia data suggests that about half the Georgian public has a basic understanding of interest and inflation rates. Saving, spending, borrowing, or investing money are everyday decisions people around the world have to make. Making the right decisions requires a certain degree of financial literacy, which some scholars boil down to understanding the basics of inflation and interest rates. In a bid to gauge the levels of financial literacy in Georgia, CRRC Georgia used questions develop

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Datablog | Who lies about how they voted?

by Koba Turmanidze

•4 min read

When the wording of questions in post-election polling is modified, the responses from survey respondents change along partisan lines. Self-reported election turnout in post-election surveys is often considerably higher than official turnout records. The gap likely stems from picking too many active voters as respondents since voters are also more likely to participate in surveys. Yet another potentially more substantial reason is over-reporting due to social desirability bias: respondents fe

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