Disabling dissent: the colour revolutions, autocratic linkages, and civil society regulations in hybrid regimes

Gilbert, Leah; Mohseni, Payam

doi:10.1080/13569775.2018.1471645

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“…While previous large-scale grassroots campaigns capitalized on their global media exposure, this dissent occurring at the 'periphery of media flow' in society largely marginalized and excluded from the transnational agenda was unable to utilise the global media exposure to (re)gain momentum. The findings are also useful for the policymakers and NGO practitioners, as they clarify the role of distinct post-Soviet settings in disabling (Gilbert and Mohseni, 2018) citizens' collective action.…”

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confidence: 92%

Mediated resistance in post-Soviet communicative ecologies: the case of ‘Chinese industrial park’ in Belarus

Miazhevich

2019

Russian Journal of Communication

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The paper adopts a 'communicative ecologies' framework and problematizes it further by exploring a collective protest campaign in post-Soviet Belarus. This study explains how mediated civic protest communication is embedded in the socioeconomic , political and cultural structures of a society. It focuses on a recent case involving civic resistance towards the construction of a so-called 'Chinese industrial park' near the capital of Belarus. The 5-year timespan (2012-2017) from the conception of this controversial project to its actual implementation is particularly suitable for exploring the complex interdependencies between traditional and new media in the framing of grassroots protest within semi-authoritarian post-Soviet settings.

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Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 92%

Mediated resistance in post-Soviet communicative ecologies: the case of ‘Chinese industrial park’ in Belarus

Miazhevich

2019

Russian Journal of Communication

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“…Perhaps, it is only when the quality of engagement with civil society is improved that the positive effect, that is reduction of political corruption, of CSO consultation transpires. Moreover, several scholars have warned of the effect of current trends toward democratic recession such as the squeezing of civic space (Buyse, 2018) and on how state elites have increasingly used the NGO legal environment as a ruling strategy to disable dissent (Dupuy et al, 2015;Gilbert & Mohseni, 2018) on the vibrance of civil society and by extension, its contribution to the enhancement of democracy and governance. However, it is puzzling but very important to note yet again that as found out in this study, similar to CSO consultation but unlike CSO repression, CSO entry and exit, defined here as the extent to which the government achieves control over the entry and exit of CSOs into public life, did not lead to a reduction in political corruption as the regression models provide.…”

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Why Civil Society Cannot Battle it All Alone: The Roles of Civil Society Environment, Transparent Laws and Quality of Public Administration in Political Corruption Mitigation

Villanueva

2019

International Journal of Public Administration

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Utilizing a large-N data that covers about 20000 observations from about 200 countries from 1789 to 2018 from the Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) project, and anchored on institutionalism as an overarching theory, and the nascent literature on civil-society corruption nexus, the paper looks at the predictive capacity of civil society environment, transparency of laws and predictability of enforcement, and rigorousness and impartiality of public administration in political corruption. Using a four-step hierarchical multiple regression, results show that while civil society and its structure is a significant determinant of the level of political corruption, the introduction of transparency of laws and predictability of enforcement, rigorousness, and impartiality of public administration, and civil society environment in the regression model accounted for additional variance in political corruption. Practical and theoretical implications, particularly on civil societycorruption nexus and the broader corruption-democracy linkage, are discussed.

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“…First, authoritarian regimes can repress organizations that communicate political problems trough legal or administrative measures (Dupuy et al, 2016;Rutzen, 2015). Documented practices include mandating government oversight of civil society groups, placing prohibitive administrative burdens on protest events, relocating protest activities to remote areas where press coverage is unlikely, and requiring civil society organizations to seek government approval before publishing information (Gilbert & Mohseni, 2018;Kriesi, 2006, p. 86;Lang, 2014, pp. 98-108).…”

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Democracy and Public Opinion Formation: How Illiberal Regimes Suppress Climate Change Concern

Levi¹,

Goldberg²

2021

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Climate change concern varies widely across countries. In 2019, 80% of Greeks were at least somewhat worried about climate change, compared to 20% of Egyptians. We argue that variation in climate change concern is partially caused by differences in democracy. Civil liberties protect climate communicators from state repression, censorship, and violence. We offer empirical evidence for the causal effect of democracy on climate change concern using data from 611,909 individuals from 118 countries collected between 2007 and 2019. Exploiting variation in civil liberties across countries and time, we find one unit change in the 7-point civil liberty index to influence climate change concern by 2.3 [95% CI: ±1] percentage points. The effect is much stronger in wealthy countries and less educated cohorts. We also present evidence for our causal pathway using qualitative interviews and by modeling the association between democracy, climate protest, media coverage, and climate concern with simultaneous equations.

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Disabling dissent: the colour revolutions, autocratic linkages, and civil society regulations in hybrid regimes

Cited by 25 publications

References 48 publications

Mediated resistance in post-Soviet communicative ecologies: the case of ‘Chinese industrial park’ in Belarus

Mediated resistance in post-Soviet communicative ecologies: the case of ‘Chinese industrial park’ in Belarus

Why Civil Society Cannot Battle it All Alone: The Roles of Civil Society Environment, Transparent Laws and Quality of Public Administration in Political Corruption Mitigation

Democracy and Public Opinion Formation: How Illiberal Regimes Suppress Climate Change Concern

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