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NGOs under pressure in partial democracies / Chris van der Borgh and Carolijn Terwindt.

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Over the past decade, international human rights organizations and think tanks have expressed a growing concern that the space of civil society organizations around the world is under pressure. This book examines the pressures experienced by NGOs in four partial democracies: Guatemala, Honduras, Ind...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Springer)
Main Authors: Borgh, Chris van der (Author), Terwindt, Carolijn (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: [Basingstoke] : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
Series:Non-governmental public action series.
Subjects:
Non-governmental organizations > Developing countries.
Non-governmental organizations.
Developing countries.
Table of Contents:
  • PART I: PRESSURES ON CIVIL SOCIETY IN PARTIAL DEMOCRACIES
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Partly Free, Partly Democratic?
  • 3. Civil Society Organizations and Arenas of Contention
  • 4. Partial Democracy and Pressures on Civil Society: Tentative Explanations
  • PART II: POLITICAL SPACE OF NGOS
  • 5. Introduction
  • 6. NGOs, Political Space and Pressures
  • 7. Pressures on Political Space: an Overview
  • 8. Explaining Pressures on NGOs
  • 9. Research Methodology
  • PART III: NATIONAL CONTEXTS: PARTIAL DEMOCRATIZATION AND CIVIL SOCIETY
  • 10. Introduction
  • 11. Guatemala
  • 12. Honduras
  • 13. Philippines
  • 14. Indonesia
  • 15. Conclusion
  • PART IV: POLITICAL SPACE UNDER PRESSURE: TRENDS AND PATTERNS
  • 16. Promotion of Sensitive Rights
  • 17. Promotion of Truth, Good Governance and the Rule of Law
  • 18. Claiming Natural Resources
  • 19. Contesting Regime Legitimacy
  • 20. Insecurity
  • 21. Conclusion
  • PART V: DEFENDING, CLAIMING AND NEGOTIATING POLITICAL SPACE
  • 22. Introduction
  • 23. Responses: an overview
  • 24. Defensive responses
  • 25. Proactive responses
  • 26. Conclusion.

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