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Vučić and Georgian Dream

SNS / GD · 2012– · Serbia, Georgia · Hybrid Authoritarian · Held state power · coding confidence medium

+04ECmarket
+07CUtraditional
+08AUmonist
+06SCcentral
+06IDascriptive
−02CHlawful

Each axis runs from −10 to +10, with zero a genuine mixed or balanced position rather than an absence of opinion. A score describes a stated position and a governing record; it is not a judgement of merit. What each score means →

Core principles

Nominally pro-European governments that have concentrated control of media, courts and state employment while balancing between the EU and Moscow.

Economic model

Foreign investment incentives, state construction projects, subsidised employment, mining and transit revenue.

Organisation of powers

Elections observed as free but not fair; mass protests met with police force; foreign-agent legislation.

Reading note

Coded jointly at medium confidence because the two cases follow closely parallel trajectories with different rhetoric.

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The evidence for every score

All six cells are sourced. A rationale explains what the score is measuring and each artefact is something a third party can check without taking anyone's word for it.

EC · Economic organisation · scored +04

Coded +4: foreign investment incentives and state construction projects.

  • Documented act or statuteSerbia's lithium and infrastructure agreements and Georgia's transit projects are the principal instruments.

CU · Social and cultural order · scored +07

Coded +7: traditional values politics in both cases.

  • Documented act or statuteGeorgia adopted a family values law restricting LGBT expression in 2024; Serbia has repeatedly obstructed Pride.

AU · Organisation of power · scored +08

Coded +8: the institutions around elections restructured while elections continue.

  • Documented act or statuteGeorgia adopted a foreign agents law in 2024 over mass protest and a presidential veto; Serbian elections have drawn OSCE findings of unfair conditions.

SC · Scale of decision · scored +06

Coded +6: centralised states with contested territorial questions.

  • Documented act or statuteSerbia's relationship with Kosovo and Georgia's with Abkhazia and South Ossetia remain unresolved.

ID · Rule of membership · scored +06

Coded +6: ethnic-national framing in both, with irredentist reference points.

  • ScholarshipThe Serbian World concept and Georgian ethnic-national framing both define belonging by descent.

CH · Method and tempo · scored −02

Coded −2: electoral, with mass protest met by police force.

  • Documented act or statuteSerbian protests after the 2024 Novi Sad canopy collapse became the largest since 2000.

Nearest organisations by measured distance

Straight-line separation across all six axes, out of a maximum of 49.0. Proximity means similarity of stated position, not endorsement and not resemblance in outcome.

Countries

Georgia · Serbia

Cite this page

Scores are revised on evidence, so a citation should carry the version it refers to. Version 4.3.1 is current; the revision log records every change.

McGrath, K. (2026). Vučić and Georgian Dream. The Political Atlas, version 4.2. https://thepoliticalatlas.com/organisations/sns_gd/ (accessed 2026-08-01).

Free to quote and reproduce with attribution. This is a synthesis rather than a peer-reviewed dataset — where an authoritative figure is needed, cite the Chapel Hill Expert Survey, the Manifesto Project or V-Dem.