one of the world's most striking returns to authoritarianism. Building on the collective findings of scholars of Russian … regime change, I argue that patterns in mass political participation following political liberalization is the crucial link … analyzing trends in non-voting political participation over time in Russia, this paper will demonstrate that Russian citizens …

Myanmar has seen an unprecedented expansion of civil society following its opening-up in 2011. However, on a regular … basis, civil society actors still face undue obstacles to their work. Whereas egregious instances of, what we collectively …-to-day impediments to free civil society has yet been missing. The Myanmar Civil Society Survey (MCSS) compiles first-hand data about …

contribute to regime resilience, focusing on the interactions between these regimes and civil society organisations (CSOs) …

Egypt was generally state-centered, and relied heavily on theoretical concepts such as bureaucratic authoritarianism … subdued society through itsauthoritarian mechanisms such as the military, the security institution, and the centralized … authoritarianism during the presidencies of Gamal Abdul Nasser (1952-1970), Anwar Sadat (1970-1981) and Hosni Mubarak (1981-present …

, content, and consequences upon Chinese society and economy, as well as their sequence in time, i.e. the underlying grand … resulting imbalances within Chinese economy, society and environment; the rebalances policies of the Hu Jintao era; and finally …

einigen Jahren in China. Er hat direkt erleben können, wie sich die Gesellschaft seit dem Jahr 2012 (Amtsantritt von Präsident …

countries help maintain the state’s control through limited participation, i.e. another form of infrastructural state power …