Wirkungen und Erfolgsbedingungen zivilgesellschaftlicher politischer Arbeit in Subsahara Afrika

Eberlei, Walter

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“…However, because Ethiopia’s NGO Law defines international funding possibilities, it has had a noticeable effect on civil society. Civil society in sub-Saharan Africa has not only fuelled processes of sociopolitical transformation, but it has also created a bridge between local and international agents (Eberlei 2014). Ethiopia’s civil society has relied on the latter, partially because of the humanitarian crisis that swept the country in the mid-1980s, when the number of international CSOs in Ethiopia grew.…”

Section: Gender and Development In Ethiopia—between The State And CIVmentioning

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“…In significant ways, NGOs as part of African civil society, have functioned as a conduit between the state and society. Mainly by mobilising around issues such as development and raising flags on societal problems (Eberlei 2014; Dessalegn 2002). The NGO Law has necessarily affected how Ethiopian women’s organisations operate, since they have always placed themselves at the point where national and international fields overlap.…”

Section: Gender and Development In Ethiopia—between The State And CIVmentioning

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Using civil society as an authoritarian legitimation strategy: Algeria and Mozambique in comparative perspective

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Bunk

2016

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen: Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden. Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen. Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Abstract The question of whether and how authoritarian regimes may use gender politics to preserve their rule has attracted insufficient academic attention so far. Research on state femi-nism shows that non-democratic regimes often enact women-friendly policies for the purpose of maintaining power. However, this finding has not been linked to the broader research on authoritarian resilience. To address this research gap, we connect recent debates on authoritarian resilience to the research on state feminism. Subsequently, we engage in a cross-regional comparison of the use of gender politics by the authoritarian regimes of Alge-ria and Mozambique in order to enrich both sets of theory on the basis of empirical findings. Specifically, we ask what strategies the two authoritarian regimes employ in the areas of women's rights and gender and how these might contribute to regime resilience, focusing on the interactions between these regimes and civil society organisations (CSOs). Jasmin Lorch, Dipl. Pol. is a research fellow at the GIGA Institute of Middle East Studies and an associate research fellow at the GIGA Institute of Asian Studies, Hamburg. Her soon-to-be-published doctoral thesis focuses on the impact of state weakness on civil society in Bangladesh and the Philippines. Bettina Bunk, MA is an associate research fellow at the GIGA Institute of African Affairs and a doctoral candidate in political science at the University of Potsdam. Her doctoral thesis (submitted July 2016) focuses on governance and the politics of local economic development in South Africa and Mozambique. GIGA Working Papers

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Wirkungen und Erfolgsbedingungen zivilgesellschaftlicher politischer Arbeit in Subsahara Afrika

Cited by 2 publications

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Ethiopia’s Asian Options: A Collage of African and Asian Entanglements

Ethiopia’s Asian Options: A Collage of African and Asian Entanglements

Using civil society as an authoritarian legitimation strategy: Algeria and Mozambique in comparative perspective

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