Civil Society Activism under Authoritarian Rule (eBook, ePUB)

A Comparative Perspective
Redaktion: Cavatorta, Francesco

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines how civil society actors operate under authoritarian constraints, and examines how this is linked to regime change.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Oktober 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136207815
• Artikelnr.: 38258011

Autorenporträt

Francesco Cavatorta is Senior Lecturer in the School of Law and Government at Dublin City University, Ireland.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction. Civil society activism under authoritarian constraints
Francesco Cavatorta 2. 'Everyday citizenship' under authoritarianism: the
cases of Spain and Portugal Pedro Ramos Pinto 3. Dissident writings as
political theory on civil society and democracy Marlies Glasius 4. Civil
society activism and authoritarian rule in Romania and Chile. Evidence for
the role played by art(ists) Caterina Preda 5.Contesting order in Tunisia:
crafting political identity Laryssa Chomiak and John Entelis 6. Voice, not
democracy. Civil society, ethnic politics and the search for political
space in Central Asia Matteo Fumagalli 7. The influence of civil society
activism on regional governance structures in the Russian Federation:
cross-regional policy comparisons Karina Mikirova, Kathrin Mueller and
Johannes Schuhmann 8. Entrenching authoritarianism or promoting reform?
Civil society in contemporary Yemen Vincent Durac 9. Relations between
professional associations and the state in Jordan Janine Clark 10. Building
an 'activist diaspora' as a response to authoritarianism in Myanmar: the
role of transnational activism in stimulating political reform Adam Simpson
11. Civil society in the digital age: how the Internet changes
state-society relations in authoritarian regimes. The case of Cuba Bert
Hoffmann 12. Reconsidering two myths about civil society. Evidence from
Afghanistan Kevin Gray