Zwischen Regulierung und Repression: Ein Beitrag zur Einordnung gesetzlicher Maßnahmen in Bezug auf die Auslandsfinanzierung von zivilgesellschaftlichen Organisationen
Zwischen Regulierung und Repression: Ein Beitrag zur Einordnung gesetzlicher Maßnahmen in Bezug auf die Auslandsfinanzierung von zivilgesellschaftlichen Organisationen
Thomas Richter / Jessica Johansson / Silvia Rojas Castro
Zwischen Regulierung und Repression: Ein Beitrag zur Einordnung gesetzlicher Maßnahmen in Bezug auf die Auslandsfinanzierung von zivilgesellschaftlichen Organisationen
Wissenschaftlicher Kongress der Deutschen Vereinigung für Politische Wissenschaft, Frankfurt/Main
Organisers: German Political Science Association
Prof. Dr. Thomas Richter (Panelist), Adele Del Sordi (Organiser)
Panel on "Shrinking spaces around the world: What drives and maintains the increase of NGO restrictions?"
In Indonesia and Malaysia, there was a remarkable mushrooming of civil society organisations since the 1970s, a growing salience of Islamist and ethnicist groups and, in the late 1990s during the Asian economic crisis, an emergence of broad social movements for reform.
This manuscript investigates how restrictions on CSOs affect the quality of horizontal accountability institutions like parliaments and courts. Our results imply that a crackdown on CSOs serves as a warning sign of deteriorating horizontal oversight.
The Focus examines the extent, contours, and impact of the foreign funding of mosques in Bosnia and Herzegovina since the end of the Bosnian war of 1992–1995. It presents the different actors involved and highlights the implications of this funding in terms of architectural and religious practices.
Autocracies worldwide have exploited COVID-19 to curtail civil liberties. However, the health crisis and related socio-economic setbacks have also created needs-induced space, leading to a rise of civil society relief activism and protests. Read more in this GIGA Focus Global.
How has the COVID-19 pandemic impacted civic space worldwide? Contrary to mainstream assumptions of “shrinking space,” analysis of five world regions in the Global South and non-OECD Europe and the Caucasus shows that civil society actors have, in fact, often still been able to sustain civic space.
A growing number of governments in sub-Saharan Africa are now cracking down on civil society organisations addressing human rights issues. Governments are not only shrinking the space for civic activism, but also destroying the backbone of democracy and inclusive development.In many countries in…
Civil society actors have been increasingly watched over by state officials around the world in recent years. At the same time, they are exposed to increasing restrictions and repression. The civil society revolution of the 1980s has hence given way of late to a civil society counter-revolution. The…
IDCAR Network Conference, University of Texas, Austin
Organisers: The University of Texas at Austin
Prof. Dr. Thomas Richter (Speaker), Dr. Georg Strüver (Speaker)
The Political Dynamics and Challenges of Mass Protesting: A Global Perspective, GIGA Hamburg, Hamburg
Organisers: German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA), Carnegie Europe
Dr. Hannah Smidt (Speaker), Jessica Johansson (Speaker), Prof. Dr. Thomas Richter (Speaker)
Wissenschaftlicher Kongress der Deutschen Vereinigung für Politische Wissenschaft, Frankfurt/Main
Organisers: German Political Science Association
Prof. Dr. Thomas Richter (Panelist), Adele Del Sordi (Organiser)
Panel on "Shrinking spaces around the world: What drives and maintains the increase of NGO restrictions?"
In Indonesia and Malaysia, there was a remarkable mushrooming of civil society organisations since the 1970s, a growing salience of Islamist and ethnicist groups and, in the late 1990s during the Asian economic crisis, an emergence of broad social movements for reform.
This manuscript investigates how restrictions on CSOs affect the quality of horizontal accountability institutions like parliaments and courts. Our results imply that a crackdown on CSOs serves as a warning sign of deteriorating horizontal oversight.
The Focus examines the extent, contours, and impact of the foreign funding of mosques in Bosnia and Herzegovina since the end of the Bosnian war of 1992–1995. It presents the different actors involved and highlights the implications of this funding in terms of architectural and religious practices.
Autocracies worldwide have exploited COVID-19 to curtail civil liberties. However, the health crisis and related socio-economic setbacks have also created needs-induced space, leading to a rise of civil society relief activism and protests. Read more in this GIGA Focus Global.
How has the COVID-19 pandemic impacted civic space worldwide? Contrary to mainstream assumptions of “shrinking space,” analysis of five world regions in the Global South and non-OECD Europe and the Caucasus shows that civil society actors have, in fact, often still been able to sustain civic space.
A growing number of governments in sub-Saharan Africa are now cracking down on civil society organisations addressing human rights issues. Governments are not only shrinking the space for civic activism, but also destroying the backbone of democracy and inclusive development.In many countries in…
Civil society actors have been increasingly watched over by state officials around the world in recent years. At the same time, they are exposed to increasing restrictions and repression. The civil society revolution of the 1980s has hence given way of late to a civil society counter-revolution. The…
IDCAR Network Conference, University of Texas, Austin
Organisers: The University of Texas at Austin
Prof. Dr. Thomas Richter (Speaker), Dr. Georg Strüver (Speaker)
The Political Dynamics and Challenges of Mass Protesting: A Global Perspective, GIGA Hamburg, Hamburg
Organisers: German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA), Carnegie Europe
Dr. Hannah Smidt (Speaker), Jessica Johansson (Speaker), Prof. Dr. Thomas Richter (Speaker)
Wissenschaftlicher Kongress der Deutschen Vereinigung für Politische Wissenschaft, Frankfurt/Main
Organisers: German Political Science Association
Prof. Dr. Thomas Richter (Panelist), Adele Del Sordi (Organiser)
Panel on "Shrinking spaces around the world: What drives and maintains the increase of NGO restrictions?"
