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

André Bank / Christiane Fröhlich

Forced Migration in the Global South: Reorienting the Debate

GIGA Focus Global, 03/2018

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

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

Mirjam Edel / Maria Josua

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

Democratization, 25, 2018, 5, 882-900

Henner Fürtig

Presidential Elections in Egypt: More Referendum than True Ballot

GIGA Focus Middle East, 01/2018

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 / 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

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

Betcy Jose / Christoph H. Stefes

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

GIGA Working Paper, No. 311, February 2018

Sabine Kurtenbach

Changing the Status Quo – Youths as Actors for Peace

GIGA Focus Global, 01/2018

Merouan Mekouar

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

GIGA Focus Middle East, 03/2018

Janjira Sombatpoonsiri

Manipulating Civic Space: Cyber Trolling in Thailand and the Philippines

GIGA Focus Asia, 03/2018

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

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, online first, 2018

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

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

Democratization, 24, 2017, 7, 1345-1357

André Bank / Maria Josua

More Stable Together: The International Dimensions of Authoritarian Rule

GIGA Focus Global, 02/2017

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

Werner Pascha / Patrick Köllner / Aurel Croissant (coordinator)

Sustainable Governance Indicators: 2017 Japan Report

2017

Luicy Pedroza

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

GIGA Focus Latin America, 01/2017

Luicy Pedroza

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

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

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

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

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

Brazil: Lula’s 2018 Candidacy Endangers Reforms of the Workers’ Party (PT)

GIGA Focus Latin America, 06/2017

Iwo Amelung / Heike Holbig

Protecting the Weak: Welfare during East Asia’s Long Twentieth Century

Critical Asian Studies, 48, 2016, 3, 309-314

André Bank

'Book Review of "Lynch, Marc (ed., 2014): The Arab Uprisings Explained. New Contentious Politics in the Middle East, New York: Columbia UP"

International Journal of Middle East Studies, 48, 2016, 1, 193-194

May Darwich

The Ontological (In)security of Similarity: Wahhabism versus Islamism in Saudi Foreign Policy

Foreign Policy Analysis, 12, 2016, 3, 469-488

May Darwich

Organization of Islamic Cooperation

in: Richard C. Martin (ed.), Encyclopedia of Islam and the Muslim World, 2nd edition, Farmington Hills: Macmillan Reference USA, 2016

May Darwich

Book review of “Democracy Promotion and Foreign Policy: Identity and Interests in US, EU and Non-Western Democracies”, by Daniela Huber

Democratization, 23, 2016, 4, 772-774

May Darwich

Ideational and Material Forces in Threat Perception: The Divergent Cases of Syria and Saudi Arabia during the Iran-Iraq War (1980-1988)

Journal of Global Security Studies, 1, 2016, 2, 142-156

Riccarda Flemmer / Almut Schilling-Vacaflor

Unfulfilled promises of the consultation approach: the limits to effective indigenous participation in Bolivia’s and Peru’s extractive industries

Third World Quarterly, 37, 2016, 1, 172-188

Charlotte Heyl / Julia Leininger

Mali seit 1992: Erfolge und Schwächen einer jungen Demokratie

in: Martin Hofbauer / Philipp Münch (eds.), Wegweiser zur Geschichte: Mali, Paderborn: Schöningh, 2016, 71-81

Nicole Hirt

Eritrean Refugees: The Pawns of European Interests

GIGA Focus Africa, 02/2016

Anne Marie Hoffmann

South America's Neoliberal Turnaround: The End for Regional Social Policy

GIGA Focus Latin America, 06/2016

Bert Hoffmann

Is Cuba’s reform going in reverse?

The Conversation, Global Issue, 2016

Bert Hoffmann

Bureaucratic socialism in reform mode: the changing politics of Cuba’s post-Fidel era

Third World Quarterly, 37, 2016, 9, 1730-1744

Bert Hoffmann

Wandel und Annäherung: Perspektiven deutsch-kubanischer Beziehungen in Kultur und Bildung

Stuttgart: Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen, 2016

Heike Holbig / Günter Schucher

"He who says C must say D" — China’s Attempt to Become the "World’s Largest Democracy"

GIGA Focus Asia, 02/2016

Heike Holbig / Sighard Neckel

Negative Classifications and the Symbolic Order of Social Inequality: Evidence from East Asia

Critical Asian Studies, 48, 2016, 3, 400-421

Heike Holbig

Demokratie als translinguale Praxis: Chinesische Aneignungen "deliberativer Demokratie"

in: Sophia Schubert / Alexander Weiß (eds.), "Demokratie" jenseits des Westens: Theorien, Diskurse, Einstellungen, Baden-Baden: Nomos, 2016, 188-205

Heike Holbig / Jonas Schachtschneider

Chinas neue "Führungsgruppen zur umfassenden Vertiefung der Reform": Chancen und Risiken politischer Steuerung unter Xi Jinping

Asien: The German Journal on Contemporary Asia, 139, 2016, 75-90

Magna Inácio / Mariana Llanos

The Institutional Presidency in Latin America: A Comparative Analysis

Presidential Studies Quarterly, 46, 2016, 3, 531–549

Maria Josua

Jordan at a Glance: History, Politics, Economy

2016

Maria Josua

Co-optation Reconsidered: Authoritarian Regime Legitimation Strategies in the Jordanian "Arab Spring"

Middle East Law and Governance, 8, 2016, 1, 32-56

Maria Josua

Convergence through learning? Patterns of exclusion during the Arab uprisings

POMEPS Studies, 21, Transnational Diffusion and Cooperation in the Middle East, 29-32, 2016

David Kuehn

Institutionalising Civilian Control of the Military in New Democracies: Theory and Evidence from South Korea

GIGA Working Paper, No. 282, February 2016

Mariana Llanos / Detlef Nolte

Brazil, Venezuela, and the Many Faces of Latin American Presidentialism

2016

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

Informal interference in the judiciary in new democracies: a comparison of six African and Latin American cases

Democratization, 23, 2016, 7, 1236-1253

Mariana Llanos / Detlef Nolte

The Many Faces of Latin American Presidentialism

GIGA Focus Latin America, 01/2016

Jasmin Lorch

Algeriens säkulare Zivilgesellschaft: Zwischen Reformbeiträgen und Systemerhalt

in: Sigrid Faath (ed.), Nordafrikas säkulare Zivilgesellschaften: Ihr Beitrag zur Stärkung von Demokratie und Menschenrechten, Berlin: Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, 2016, 53-83

Jasmin Lorch / Bettina Bunk