This article examines the instrumentalization of women's rights and the transformation of the
gender rights regime in the context of democratic backsliding in Turkey. I show how the …

The Government of Canada introduced its new Feminist International Assistance Policy
(FIAP) to guide its foreign aid programming in June 2017. This feminist turn mirrors earlier …

This article focuses on the Turkish Justice and Development Party's (AKP) government-
linked non-governmental organization for women's rights, the Women and Democracy …

In the 2010s in Turkey, the ruling Justice and Development Party's (AKP) authoritarian-
populist turn accompanied the institutionalization of political Islam. As laicism was …

That women offer substantive representation in democratic systems is well established.
However, can they do so in partial or non-democracies? As less than half of the women in …

Traditional definitions of the shrinking space solely focus on the State's restricting role
therein. They however, overlook the impact of another invested party which, especially in …

Utilizing a large-N data that covers about 20000 observations from about 200 countries from
1789 to 2018 from the Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) project, and anchored on …

The European Union's cooperation with Middle Eastern regimes to counter terrorism and
prevent violent extremism has received increased scholarly attention following several …

The article presents the results of an empirical study on the current framework conditions for
civil society organizations in Austria. The results are linked to findings on how authoritarian …

How do nonstate organizations carry out their programs in political contexts hostile to civil
society activity? This paper examines the case of refugee-supporting organizations in …