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 …
AJ Spires - Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
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 …
C Fröhlich, Y Skokova - VOLUNTAS: International Journal of Voluntary and …, 2020 - Springer
Civil societies are usually seen as facilitators of democracy or as oppositional powers withstanding authoritarian rule. However, more and more often civil society organizations …
O Bruun, O Rubin - Environmental Management, 2023 - Springer
This article examines collaborative environmental governance under authoritarian political structures. Building on the theoretical frame of authoritarian environmentalism, it peruses …
J Sombatpoonsiri - Journal of Civil Society, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
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 …
J Lorch - Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Scholarship on autocratisation has investigated the strategies of cooptation and repression that autocratic and autocratising regimes employ to maintain and enhance their power …
R Simsa - Nonprofit Policy Forum, 2022 - degruyter.com
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 …
Z Atalay - Current Sociology, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Recent scholarship on state–civil society dynamics in neoauthoritarian contexts demonstrates that the space for civil society is rapidly shrinking worldwide. Faced with legal …