Publications | Accountability and Participation

Maria Bondes / Björn Alpermann

Networked Contention against Waste Incinerators in China: Brokers, Linkages and Dynamics of Diffusion

in: Teresa Wright (ed.), Handbook of Dissent and Protest in China, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, forthcoming

Iwo Amelung / Moritz Bälz / Heike Holbig / Matthias Schumann / Cornelia Storz

Weak vs. Strong: Ambiguities of Protection

in: Iwo Amelung / Moritz Bälz / Heike Holbig / Matthias Schumann / Cornelia Storz (eds.), Protecting the Weak in East Asia: Framing, Mobilisation, and Institutionalisation, Abingdon / New York: Routledge, 2018

Iwo Amelung / Moritz Bälz / Heike Holbig / Matthias Schumann / Cornelia Storz (eds.)

Protecting the Weak in East Asia: Framing, Mobilisation, and Institutionalisation

Abingdon / New York: Routledge, 2018

André Bank

Comparative Area Studies and the Study of Middle East Politics after the Arab Uprisings

in: Ariel I. Ahram / Patrick Köllner / Rudra Sil (eds.), Comparative Area Studies: Methodologies Rationales and Cross-Regional Applications, New York: Oxford University Press, 2018, 119-129

André Bank / Christiane Fröhlich

Forced Migration in the Global South: Reorienting the Debate

GIGA Focus Global, 03/2018

André Bank / Kurt Weyland (eds.)

Authoritarian Diffusion and Cooperation: Interests vs. Ideology

London: Routledge, 2018

Marianne Beisheim / Anne Ellersiek / Jasmin Lorch

INGOs and Multi-Stakeholder Partnerships

in: Thomas Risse / Tanja A. Börzel / Anke Draude (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Governance and Limited Statehood, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018, 211-230

Aurel Croissant / David Kuehn / Tanja Eschenauer

The “dictator’s endgame”: Explaining military behavior in nonviolent anti-incumbent mass protests

Democracy and Security, 14, 2018, 2, 174-199

Aurel Croissant / David Kuehn / Tanja Eschenauer

Mass Protests and the Military

Journal of Democracy, 29, 2018, 3, 141-155

Mirjam Edel / Maria Josua

How Authoritarian Rulers Seek to Legitimize Repression: Framing Mass Killings in Egypt and Uzbekistan

Democratization, 25, 2018, 5, 882-900

Daniel Flemes

Brazil’s Elections: Nationalist Populism on the Rise

GIGA Focus Latin America, 05/2018

Henner Fürtig

Presidential Elections in Egypt: More Referendum than True Ballot

GIGA Focus Middle East, 01/2018

Tim Glawion

Revolts in Central Africa: Protests, Politics, and Ways Forward

GIGA Focus Africa, 03/2018

Christoph Heuser

New President, Old Problems: Corruption and Organised Crime Keep Peru in Crisis

GIGA Focus Latin America, 04/2018

Aline-Sophia Hirseland / Oliver Strijbis

‘We were forgotten’: explaining ethnic voting in Bolivia’s highlands and lowlands

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, online first, 2018

Nicole Hirt / Abdulkader Saleh Mohammad

By way of patriotism, coercion, or instrumentalization: how the Eritrean regime makes use of the diaspora to stabilize its rule

Globalizations, 15, 2018, 2, 232-247

Nicole Hirt / Abdulkader Saleh Mohammad

The Lack of Political Space of the Eritrean Diaspora in the Arab Gulf and Sudan: Torn Between an Autocratic Home and Authoritarian Hosts

Mashriq & Mahjar: Journal of Middle East and North African Migration Studies , 5, 2018, 1, 101-126

Nicole Hirt

European Missteps on African Migration

Current History, 117, 2018, 799, 175-180

Bert Hoffmann

Cuba after Raúl: Pressure for Reforms Remains High

GIGA Focus Latin America, 02/2018

Heike Holbig

Making China Great Again: Xi Jinping Bids Farewell to the Reform Era

GIGA Focus Asia, 02/2018

Heike Holbig

Whose New Normal? Framing the Economic Slowdown Under Xi Jinping

Journal of Chinese Political Science, 23, 2018, 3, 341–363

Heike Holbig / Moritz Bälz

Shifting Relations between State and Social Actors: Ambiguous Strategies of Protecting the Weak in Japan and China

in: Iwo Amelung / Moritz Bälz / Heike Holbig / Matthias Schumann / Cornelia Storz (eds.), Protecting the Weak in East Asia: Framing, Mobilisation, and Institutionalisation, Abingdon / New York: Routledge, 2018

Betcy Jose / Christoph H. Stefes

Russian Norm Entrepreneurship in Crimea: Serious Contestation or Cheap Talk?

GIGA Working Paper, No. 311, February 2018

David Kuehn

Democratic Control of the Military

in: Giuseppe Caforio / Marina Nuciari (eds.), Handbook of Military Sociology, Cham: Springer, 2018, 161-178

David Kuehn

Dictators and their secret police: coercive institutions and state violence, by Sheena Chestnut Greitens (Book Review)

Democratization, online first, 2018

Sabine Kurtenbach

Changing the Status Quo – Youths as Actors for Peace

GIGA Focus Global, 01/2018

Mariana Llanos / Leany Lemos

Preferências Presidenciais? As indicações para o Supremo Tribunal Federal no Brasil Democrático

in: Marjorie Corrêa Marona / Andrés del Río (eds.), Justiça no Brasil: às margens da democracia, Belo Horizonte: Arraes Editores, 2018, 275-308

Merouan Mekouar

Beyond the Model Reform Image: Morocco’s Politics of Elite Co-Optation

GIGA Focus Middle East, 03/2018

Werner Pascha / Patrick Köllner / Aurel Croissant (coordinator)

Sustainable Governance Indicators 2018: Japan Report

2018

Ina Peters

Cohesion and Fragmentation in Social Movements: How Frames and Identities Shape the Belo Monte Conflict

Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 2018

Janjira Sombatpoonsiri

Manipulating Civic Space: Cyber Trolling in Thailand and the Philippines

GIGA Focus Asia, 03/2018

Cornelia Storz / Heike Holbig

Theories on Institutional Change: An Application to the Dynamics of “Protecting the Weak”

in: Iwo Amelung / Moritz Bälz / Heike Holbig / Matthias Schumann / Cornelia Storz (eds.), Protecting the Weak in East Asia: Framing, Mobilisation, and Institutionalisation, Abingdon / New York: Routledge, 2018

Hakkı Taş

Contained Uncertainty: Turkey’s June 2018 Elections and Their Consequences

GIGA Focus Middle East, 04/2018

Kressen Thyen / Johannes Gerschewski

Legitimacy and protest under authoritarianism: explaining student mobilization in Egypt and Morocco during the Arab uprisings

Democratization, 25, 2018, 1, 38-57

Kressen Thyen

Managing Contention: Divergent Government Responses to Youth Protests in the Arab World

Middle East Law and Governance, 10, 2018, 1, 91-116

Andreas Ufen

Party presidentialization in post-Suharto Indonesia

Contemporary Politics, 24, 2018, 3, 306-324

Andreas Ufen

Book review: Participation without democracy. Containing conflict in Southeast Asia, by Garry Rodan

Democratization, online first, 2018

Andreas Ufen

Regimewechsel durch Wahlen? Der malaysische Tsunami im Mai 2018

Stiftung Asienhaus - Blickwechsel, 2018

Jörg Wischermann

Authoritarian Rule

in: Akihiro Ogawa (ed.), Routledge Handbook on Civil Society in Asia, Abingdon: Routledge, 2018, 344-361

Jörg Wischermann / Bettina Bunk / Patrick Köllner / Jasmin Lorch

Do associations support authoritarian rule? Evidence from Algeria, Mozambique, and Vietnam

Journal of Civil Society, 14, 2018, 2, 95-115

Jörg Wischermann / Dang Thi Viet Phuong

Vietnam

in: Akihiro Ogawa (ed.), Routledge Handbook on Civil Society in Asia, Abingdon: Routledge, 2018, 129-142

André Bank / Maria Josua

More Stable Together: The International Dimensions of Authoritarian Rule

GIGA Focus Global, 02/2017

André Bank

The study of authoritarian diffusion and cooperation: comparative lessons on interests versus ideology, nowadays and in history

Democratization, 24, 2017, 7, 1345-1357

Maria Bondes / Thomas Johnson

Beyond Localized Environmental Contention: Horizontal and Vertical Diffusion in a Chinese Anti-Incinerator Campaign

Journal of Contemporary China, 26, 2017, 106, 504-520

Sidney Chalhoub / Cath Collins / Mariana Llanos / Mónica Pachón / Keisha-Khan Y. Perry

Report of the LASA Fact-Finding Delegation on the Impeachment of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff

Latin American Studies Association, 2017

Emanuela Dalmasso / Adele Del Sordi / Marlies Glasius / Nicole Hirt / Marcus Michaelsen / Abdulkader S. Mohammad / Dana Moss

Intervention: Extraterritorial authoritarian power

Political Geography, online first, 2017

May Darwich

Creating the enemy, constructing the threat: the diffusion of repression against the Muslim Brotherhood in the Middle East

Democratization, 24, 2017, 7, 1289-1306

Mirjam Edel / Maria Josua

How Authoritarian Rulers Seek to Legitimise Repression: Framing Mass Killings in Egypt and Uzbekistan

GIGA Working Paper, No. 299, March 2017

Julia Grauvogel / Charlotte Heyl

Democracy in Africa: Against All Odds

GIGA Focus Africa, 07/2017

Nicole Hirt

Eritrea

in: Jon Abbink / Sebastian Elischer / Andreas Mehler / Henning Melber (eds.), Africa Yearbook 2016, Vol. 13, Leiden: Brill, 2017, 301-309

Nicole Hirt

The European Union’s Africa Strategy: Closing Borders Instead of Tackling the Causes of Flight

GIGA Focus Africa, 03/2017

Nicole Hirt

Djibouti

in: Jon Abbink / Sebastian Elischer / Andreas Mehler / Henning Melber (eds.), Africa Yearbook 2016, Vol. 13, Leiden: Brill, 2017, 294-300

Nicole Hirt

Fleeing Repression: Inside Eritrea

in: Giovanni Carbone (ed.), Out of Africa. Why People Migrate, Milano: ISPI, 2017, 95-118

Heike Holbig

The 19th party congress: Its place in history

European Council on Foreign Relations, China Analysis: China’s “New Era” with Xi Jinping characteristics, 2017, 3-4

Maria Josua

Legitimation towards whom? Managing the legitimacy crisis in Algeria during the Arab Uprisings

Zeitschrift für Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft, 11, 2017, 2, 301-324

Sabine Kurtenbach / Detlef Nolte

Latin America’s Fight against Corruption: The End of Impunity

GIGA Focus Latin America, 03/2017

Esben Leifsen / Maria-Therese Gustafsson / Maria A. Guzmán-Gallegos / Almut Schilling-Vacaflor

New mechanisms of participation in extractive governance: between technologies of governance and resistance work

Third World Quarterly, 38, 2017, 5, 1043-1057

Mariana Llanos / Magna Inácio

Government Changeover without a Majority – Latin American Presidents’ Executive Strategies

GIGA Focus Latin America, 04/2017

Mariana Llanos / Charlotte Heyl / Viola Lucas / Alexander Stroh / Cordula Tibi Weber

Ousted from the Bench? Judicial Departures in Consolidating Democracies

GIGA Working Paper, No. 300, April 2017

Jasmin Lorch / Bettina Bunk

Using civil society as an authoritarian legitimation strategy: Algeria and Mozambique in comparative perspective

Democratization, 24, 2017, 6, 987-1005

Víctor M. Mijares

The Resilience of Venezuelan Authoritarianism

GIGA Focus Latin America, 02/2017

Detlef Nolte

Reformas constitucionales en América Latina 1978-2015: Frecuencia, requisitos y patrones de cambio en perspectiva comparativa

in: Catherine Andrews (ed.), Un siglo de constitucionalismo en América Latina (1917 -2017), Ciudad de México: CIDE, 2017, 647-698

Pau Palop García / Luicy Pedroza

Beyond convergence: unveiling variations of external franchise in Latin America and the Caribbean from 1950 to 2015

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 43, 2017, 9, 1597-1616

Pau Palop-García

Ausentes, pero representados: mecanismos institucionales de representación de emigrantes en América Latina y el Caribe

Americana Latina Hoy, 76, 2017, 15-34

Luicy Pedroza

Gasoline into Fire: Mexico’s Internal Unrest Meets External Threats

GIGA Focus Latin America, 01/2017

Luicy Pedroza / Pau Palop-Garcia

Diaspora policies in comparison: An application of the Emigrant Policies Index (EMIX) for the Latin American and Caribbean region

Politcal Geography, 60, 2017, 165–178

Luicy Pedroza

Innovations Rising from the South? Three Books on Latin America’s Migration Policy Trajectories

Migration Studies, 5, 2017, 1, 140-148

Thomas Richter

Structural Reform in the Arab Gulf States – Limited Influence of the G20

GIGA Focus Middle East, 03/2017

Richard Roewer

Myanmar’s National League for Democracy at a Crossroads

GIGA Focus Asia, 01/2017

Almut Schilling-Vacaflor / Christoph Steinert

(Neo-)Extraktivismus statt nachhaltiger Entwicklung : Grenzen des lateinamerikanischen Wachstumsmodells

in: Hans-Jürgen Burchardt / Stefan Peters / Nico Weinmann (eds.), Entwicklungstheorie von heute - Entwicklungspolitik von morgen, Baden-Baden: Nomos, 2017, 241 - 256

Almut Schilling-Vacaflor

The Shady Side of Consultation and Compensation: ‘Divide-and-Rule’ Tactics in Bolivia's Extraction Sector

Development and Change, 48, 2017, 6, 1439-1463

Almut Schillling-Vacaflor

Who controls the territory and the resources? Free, prior and informed consent (FPIC) as a contested human rights practice in Bolivia

Third World Quarterly, 38, 2017, 5, 1058-1074

Jason Sumich

The Slow Decay of Southern Africa's Dominant-Party Regimes

GIGA Focus Africa, 08/2017

Anna Sunik

The UAE: From Junior Partner to Regional Power

GIGA Focus Middle East, 06/2017

Thomas Johnson / Maria Bondes (eds.)

Chinese Environmental Actors Linking Up: Towards an Environmental Movement?

Journal of Contemporary China, 26, 2017, 106

Andreas Ufen

Undermining Religious Minority Rights in Indonesia and Malaysia: Fragile Coalitions, Wavering Executive Chiefs and Rogue Groups as Proxies

in: Marco Bünte / Björn Dressel (eds.), Politics and Constitutions in Southeast Asia, Abingdon: Routledge, 2017, 186-206

Andreas Ufen

Political Finance and Corruption in Southeast Asia: Causes and Challenges

in: Chris Rowley / Marie dela Rama (eds.), The Changing Face of Corruption in the Asia Pacific: Current Perspectives and Future Challenges, Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2017, 23-33

Siri Völker