16. July 2017 | EDP Wire

How do autocracies legitimate their rule?

Johannes Gerschewski and Alex Dukalskis have edited a special issue of “Contemporary Politics” on the topic “Legitimation in Autocracies” to push forward the debate about a factor that has gone almost unnoticed by the recent wave of comparative authoritarianism: autocratic legitimation.

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14. July 2017 | Publication

Negotiating International Civil Society Support

PRIF Working Papers 36/2017, Peace Research Institute Frankfurt.

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14. July 2017 | Publication

Widerstand gegen internationale Zivilgesellschaftsförderung: mehr als nur „eine illegitime Ausrede“

BBE-Newsletter für Engagement und Partizipation in Europa, 7.

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13. July 2017 | News

EDP-Lecture by Nick Lemay about Internal Brain Drain-Dynamics and Foreign Aid at PRIF Frankfurt

On Thursday, July 6, 2017, Nicolas Lemay-Hébert, Senior Lecturer at the University of Birmingham, presented his research on “The Internal Brain Drain: Foreign Aid, Hiring Practices and International Migration” at the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt (PRIF). Nick is currently EDP …

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12. July 2017 | Publication

Schlechtes Vorbild Deutschland

PRIF Spotlight 2/2017, Frankfurt: Peace Research Institute Frankfurt (PRIF).

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1. July 2017 | News

Summer School: Democratization in a Globalized and Mediatized World

Democratization in a globalized and mediatized world was the topic of the 2017 Summer School held in St. Gallen and organized by the School of Economics and Political Science (University of St. Gallen) and the Doctoral Program Democracy Studies. The …

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21. June 2017 | Publication

The contested spaces of civil society in a plural world: norm contestation in the debate about restrictions on international civil society support

in: Contemporary Politics, published online: 21 June 2017.

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18. June 2017 | Publication

Institutional Overlap and Responses to Political Crises in South America

in: Suarez, Marcial A.G./Duarte Villa, Rafael A./Weiffen, Brigitte (eds): Power Dynamics and Regional Security in Latin America, Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 173-197.

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7. June 2017 | Publication

The three pillars and the survival of electoral autocracies – A reply

in: Zeitschrift für Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft 11: 2, 237-246.

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1. June 2017 | News

EDP Network organizes authors workshop at PRIF in Frankfurt

From May 18-19, the EDP Network hosted the authors workshop on the topic of “Democracy Promotion Negotiation” at the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt (PRIF), which is part of the Leibniz Association. In the two days, we discussed the papers of our …

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