Civil society activism under authoritarian rule
Subtitle: a comparative perspective
By: edited by Francesco Cavatorta
Series: Routledge/ECPR studies in European political science -- 80
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780415692649; 9780203094549
Subjects: Comparative government; Case studies; Regime change; Civil society; Authoritarianism; Political participation
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction. Civil society activism under authoritarian constraints; title: Everyday citizenship under authoritarianism: the cases of Spain and Portugal / Pedro Ramos Pinto; title: Dissident writings as political theory on civil society and democracy / Marlies Glasius; title: Civil society activism and authoritarian rule in Romania and Chile / Caterina Preda; title: Contesting order in Tunisia: crafting political identity / Laryssa Chomiak and John Entelis; title: Voice, not democracy. civil society, ethnic politics and the search for political space in Central Asia / Matteo Fumagalli; title: The influence of civil society activism on regional governance structures in the Russian Federation / Karina Mikirova, Kathrin Mueller and Johannes Schuhmann; title: Entrenching authoritarianism or promoting reform? civil society in contemporary Yemen / Vincent Durac; title: Relations between professional associations and the state in Jordan / Janine Clark; title: Transnational activism under authoritarianism in Myanmar / Adam Simpson; title: Civil society in the digital age: how the internet changes state-society relations in authoritarian regimes. the case of Cuba / Bert Hoffmann; title: Reconsidering two myths about civil society. evidence from Afghanistan / Kevin Gray.