In this introductory essay to the special issue on civil society in authoritarian and hybrid
regimes, we review core themes in the growing literature on shrinking or closing space for …

Since its publication in 2004, Civil Society has become a standard work of reference for all
those who seek to understand the role of voluntary citizen action in the contemporary world …

With the passage of a nationwide Charity Law in March 2016, Chinese nongovernmental
organizations (NGOs) entered a new and unprecedented era of legal regulation, one that …

Existing research on civil society organizations (CSOs) facing restricted civic space largely
focuses on the crackdown on freedoms and CSOs' strategies to handle these restrictions …

Civil societies are usually seen as facilitators of democracy or as oppositional powers
withstanding authoritarian rule. However, more and more often civil society organizations …

This article examines collaborative environmental governance under authoritarian political
structures. Building on the theoretical frame of authoritarian environmentalism, it peruses …

In this article, the author argues that civil society can actively foster anti-democratic agendas
that propel young democracies on an autocratic path. Therefore, civil society is not idly …

Scholarship on autocratisation has investigated the strategies of cooptation and repression
that autocratic and autocratising regimes employ to maintain and enhance their power …

The paper analyzes changing civic spaces in Austrian civil society. Different levels of
authoritarian politics in different phases of the last 8 years–the recent phase intertwined with …

Recent scholarship on state–civil society dynamics in neoauthoritarian contexts
demonstrates that the space for civil society is rapidly shrinking worldwide. Faced with legal …