Sakartvelos resp’ublik’is uzenaesi sabch’os dadgenileba 1991 ts’lis 19-21 agvist’os ssr kavshirshi mimdinare movlenebis dros sakartvelos k’p’ tsentraluri k’omit’et’is biuros, apkhazetis k’p’ respublik’uri k’omit’et’is, q’opili samkhret ose’is k’p’ saolko k’omit’et’isa da e.ts’. samkhret osetis sakhalkho deput’at’ta gaukmebuli sabch’os tvitmarkvia aghmasrulebeli k’omit’et’is mokmedebata shesakheb [Decree of the Supreme Council of the Republic of Georgia during the Current Events in the USSR on August 19-21, 1991 on the Actions of the Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Georgia, the Republican Committee of the Communist Party of Abkhazia, the District Committee of the Former South Ossetia, So Called Self-Proclaimed Executive Committee of the People’s Council of Deputies of South Ossetia] (1991l, May 24). sak’art’velos respublika, 2.

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• TITLE: The Presidential Institute in Georgia: Subjective Understanding of Political Needs and Institutional Transformations

  AUTHORS: Ruslan Baramidze, Maia Bolkvadze

  KEYWORDS: Power, Political Crisis, Presidential Institute, Georgia, Social Field, Social Capital, Media

  JOURNAL NAME: Open Journal of Political Science, Vol.12 No.3, July 29, 2022

  ABSTRACT: This paper discusses the formation of the Presidency as an institution and the presidential rule in Georgia, as well as some attempts by leaders in power to change and strengthen the Presidency. Until 2010, changes in the Presidency had been meant to strengthen the institution, but the 2010 constitutional changes made prime minister the head of the executive branch and significantly limited the powers of the president. This paper discusses the process of establishing the Presidency according to the terms of three Presidents of Georgia—Zviad Gamsakhurdia, Eduard Shevardnadze and Mikheil Saakashvili. The process of power formation is discussed within Pierre Bourdieu’s theory of social capital and social space/fields. The analysis focuses on the context, importance of personal capital, interaction with socially relevant actors/agents, steps taken to strengthen the personal power, development of media content, and the impact of procedural changes on the institutional sustainability.