drawn from Iran, the Soviet Union/Russia and Egypt. …Resource-rich dictatorships are more inclined to repress civil society than others. In this paper, we identify a … tradeoff between political rents from natural resources and the organizational density of civil society. This organizational …

term. As Russia’s aggressive wars are a consequence of the personalist dictatorship that has embraced the imperialist idea …The current wave of emigrants from Russia can play an important role in the country's political transition in the long …

This article analyses global civil society advocacy in the field of child labour through the lens of theories on … representation, that is, between civil society actors' power to represent and their power over representation. Using such an approach …

During recent years, civil society legitimacy has generated a growing interest in scholarly research. The present … to start assessing civil society legitimacy empirically. It does so by using the non-proliferation regime as a field of …

It is often claimed that the participation of Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) can mitigate the democratic deficit of … the European Union. This claim rests on the assumption that civil society organizations channel citizens' concerns to the …

Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) play an active and noteworthy role in governance, both at the national and …

änderndes Beziehungsgefüge zwischen Staat und Gesellschaft hindeuten. Sie untersuchen dabei (a) neue Partizipations- und …This report approaches the question of whether a civil society is emerging in China. It examines several political and … between state and society. The authors of this report analyse (a) new participatory and social security arrangements in China …

definition of the third sector arguing in favour of a coming together of the concepts of civil society and social economy - what …