Most research on post-socialist civil society has focused on analysing the characteristics that
explain (the lack of) civic strength. Although recent research has highlighted the rise of …

Since the late 2000s, activists involved in conflicts over urban space and municipal budgets
in a number of Czech cities have had an increasing tendency to enter the formal political …

This thesis investigates processes behind the formation of new left movement parties in post-
Yugoslav space by tracing and comparing the emergence of two movement parties: Initiative …

Advocacy NGOs in Croatia often emphasize their nonpartisan identity, meaning that they do
not publicly associate with political parties or declare their endorsement of electoral …

This volume explores a range of existential challenges facing civil society organisations in
the early twenty-first century, a period that has been dubbed 'the age of uncertainty'(Bauman …

The 2019 Hungarian municipal elections signaled a surprising shift in the country's
previously stagnant politics. The many, diverse opposition parties cooperated and ran …