Direction:Politics and Public Administration
Position:Associate Professor
Archil Abashidze is Associate Professor at Ilia State University, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, teaching courses in Political Science and Public Administration. He received his PHD in 2016 at Ilia State University. He holds two master’s degrees – one from the German University of Administrative Sciences in Speyer (2004), and one from the Georgian-American Institute of Public Administration (GIPA, 2000). Mr. Archil Abashidze was a Junior Faculty Development Program (JFDP) fellow at the Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy State University of New York (SUNY) in 2010, a program funded by the U.S. Department of State, the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA). His career as researcher is also related to “the Caucasus Institute for Peace, Democracy and Development” where he was researcher and regional coordinator for several projects.
Scientific interests / research interests
Public administration, civil service, interest groups,corruption
- Education in the Condition of “a Total Lockdown”, in: a Special Issue of the Quarterly Review of Distance Education: Essays from the Field: Instructional Technology in a Time of Crisis, Volume 21, Number 3, 2020.
- Archil Abashidze, Giorgi Gvalia: A Cost-Benefit Analysis of Border Corruption in the Conflict Regions in Georgia and Moldova, European Scientific Journal, Vol.16, No.11, April 2020.
- Is Volunteerism Experiencing Growth in Georgia? Assessment before and after the Flood in Tbilisi on June 13, 2015. Problems of Political Psychology, Volume 5 (19), Kiev, 2017.
- Archil Abashidze, Anahit Gharibyan. A Comparative Analysis of Electoral Processes in Armenia and Georgia, in: Analytical Bulletin: Armenian-Georgian Cooperation Through Academia and Students’ Inclusion, Yerevan State University, Center for Civilization and Cultural Studies, № 10, 2017.
- Archil Abashidze, Giorgi Selimashvili. Challenges of Recruitment Procedures in the Georgian Civil Service, Romanian Journal of Political Science, Vol 15, number 2, Winter 2015.
- State Policy on Volunteerism – Georgian legislation and the world practice (in Georgian language), OSGF, Tbilisi, 2011.
- Case: Georgia, in: Effective mechanisms and practices for fighting against corruption in the Black Sea Region: lessons learnt and further steps for Romania, Bulgaria, Turkey and Georgia (Project Report), Bucharest, 2010.
- Labour Migration from Georgia and bilateral migration agreements: needs and prospects, Policy Review, CIPDD, Tbilisi, 2009.
- Javakheti one year after the August War , Policy Review, CIPDD, Tbilisi 2009.
- A Plea for Open Parliaments in the Black Sea Region: Case Georgia (Project Report), Bucharest, 2008.
- Jessica Schultz, Archil Abashidze,: Anti-corruption policy making in practice: Georgia – a Country Case Study, in: Anti-corruption policy making in practice: report of six country case studies, Chr. Michelsen Institute, (in English, French and Spanish languages), Norway 2007.
Current Courses |
Course Catalog |
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| Political Ideologies; Public Management Democracy and Good Citizenship; Political system of Georgia; Public Administration |
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Participated in book translation projects at ISU:
1. American Foreign Policy. B. Jentleson, 2015.
2. Public Administration, R. Denhardt, J. Denhardt, 2012.
3. Understanding Politics, T. Magstadt, 2010.