18. July 2017 | EDP Wire
A critical NGO receives a letter from the tax office, indicating that its public-benefit status has been revoked on the grounds of its involvement in political activities. After a court has reviewed and closed the case in favor of the NGO, the central government intervenes, insisting that the judgment should be reviewed.
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16. July 2017 | Publication
16. July 2017 | EDP Wire
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
13. July 2017 | News
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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1. July 2017 | News
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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