DEMOCRATIZATION OF POST-SOVIET GEORGIA - PROBLEMS OF CONTROL OVER THE ACTIVITIES OF POLITICAL ELITES.

For some reasons the ruling elites of Georgia, rising to a higher level in the structures of state power at various stages of the country's historical development considered, that one of the factors hindering its democratization is the undemocratic nature of the forms of governance enshrined in the Constitution. For this reason, despite the relatively short period after Georgia gained independence, managed to change several forms of republican government, starting with presidential, continuing with semi-presidential and ending with parliamentary republic. Nevertheless, the Georgian state is still very far from the implementation of the tasks of strengthening democratic values and the formation of democratic principles, which is not difficult to ascertain by looking at least some key points of the country's political history in recent years. If we review the most important aspects that determined the functioning of the political system of Georgia in the post-socialist period, it is striking that the current ruling elites each time set the goal of pursuing the policy of maintaining power at all costs, including the usurpation of power and without any responsibility to the voters. In turn, it provoked "revolutionary processes" or, at best, ended with a change of state elites through the use of electoral procedures, but under the conditions very close to "revolutionary". Based on the above, the purpose of the presented article is as follows: to understand the problems, that hindered the process of liberal democratization in Georgia, and to determine which model of the democratic system in terms of the functioning of an ethno-national community that has historically formed in a specific cultural and geographical environment, could be the most acceptable for the country. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]