Civil Society Activism under Authoritarian Rule: A Comparative Perspective (Routledge/ECPR Studies in European Political Science) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0415692644 ISBN 13: 9780415692649

Publisher: Routledge, 2012

Synopsis

This book examines how civil society actors operate under authoritarian constraints, and examines how this is linked to regime change.

This book moves beyond traditional notions of civil society and explains the complexity of state-society relations in authoritarian contexts outside the framework of democratization. Rejecting a wholly normative approach, the contributors focus on the whole range of civic activism under authoritarianism, from resistance to support for the political system in place. They explain how activism under authoritarianism is subject to different structures, and demonstrate how active citizens have tried to claw back powers of expression and contestation, but also sought to create a voice for themselves as privileged interlocutors of authoritarian regimes.

With a strong empirical focus on a wide range of countries and authoritarian regimes, this book presents cross-country comparisons on Spain, Portugal, Romania, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Hungary, Russia, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Cuba, Chile, Tunisia, Yemen, Jordan, Afghanistan and Burma.

Civil Society Activism under Authoritarian Rule will be of interest to students and scholars of international politics, comparative politics, civil society, authoritarianism and regime change.

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About the Author

Francesco Cavatorta is Senior Lecturer in the School of Law and Government at Dublin City University, Ireland.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0415692644
• ISBN 13: 9780415692649
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 280
• Editor: Cavatorta Francesco