redaktion, Author at EDP Network

21. January 2019 | News

EDP Workshop: „Why to Fight against Dictatorship at high personal costs?”

Under the direction of two of our network members, Sonja Grimm (University of Konstanz / University of Basel) and Annika Elena Poppe (PRIF), the EDP network organized a workshop on January 17–18 on “Why to fight against dictatorship at high personal costs? Studying political activism and its leadership in autocracies” at the Peace Research Institute (PRIF) in Frankfurt.

16. January 2019 | Publication

Furthering Pluralism? The German Foundations in Transitional Tunisia

in: Voluntas – International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations, 30:6, 1284-1296

15. January 2019 | EDP Wire

Democracy Promotion and the European Union

This week, Sonja turns to the European Union as one of the key actors on the world stage with regard to democracy promotion. Sonja argues that democracy promotion in the EU currently faces four main challenges: a loss of credibility, a lack of effectiveness, lacking willingness, and competition with regional powers’ counterveiling of European democracy promotion policies.

8. January 2019 | EDP Wire

Democracy Promotion by Indirect Means: Potential and Limits of Functional Cooperation

In her contribution to the EDP policy paper, Tina looks at a specific strategy of international governance assistance that some consider a promising alternative to the direct and explicit promotion of democracy and discusses whether democracy promotion through so called “functional cooperation” might be a solution to the current malaise

7. January 2019 | EDP Wire

Populist-leaning voters want more direct democracy – but do their parties deliver?

In this Wire, the authors discuss whether populist parties deliver one of the core demands that their supporters press for.

19. December 2018 | Publication

Responding to Closing Civic Space: Recent Experiences from Three Global Initiatives

CSIS Human Rights Initiative Report (December 2018). Washington: Center for Strategic and International Studies.

18. December 2018 | EDP Wire

Democracy Promotion and the Challenge of Shrinking Civic Spaces

In this weeks contribution, Annika and Jonas zoom in on one particularly noticeable phenomenon – the global spread of shrinking spaces for civil society actors – and discuss how this affects international civil society support

11. December 2018 | EDP Wire

Autocratization and Democratic Backsliding: Taking Stock of a Recent Debate

In his contribution to the EDP policy paper, Johannes focuses on rebuting the alarming notion of a global democratic rollback. He shows us that there is no general rise in autocratic regimes, but worrying developments indeed with regard to the quality of democratic regimes world-wide in terms of political rights and civil liberties

11. December 2018 | EDP Wire

Blocking the Bottleneck: Internet Shutdowns and Ownership at Election Times in Sub-Saharan Africa

Tina Freyburg and Lisa Garbe analyze the relationship between state ownership of Internet service providers (ISP), regime type, and presence of violence in seeking to explain why internet shutdowns occur in certain situations, focusing on election periods in several countries in sub-Saharan Africa.

4. December 2018 | EDP Wire

Democracy Promotion in the 21st Century

Annika, Jonas, and Solveig take stock of the key challenges and trends in international democracy promotion in this weeks contribution. They introduce the overall question that informed the EDP policy report, suggest a reconceptualisation of democracy promotion research, and give a short overview over the coming contributions.