Contesting Autocratisation
Actors and Institutions of Democratic Resistance in a Global Perspective
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Contesting Autocratisation
Actors and Institutions of Democratic Resistance in a Global Perspective
About this book
While authoritarianism continues to gain ground globally, this book offers a global and nuanced perspective into how, when, and where autocratisation may be contested and sometimes reversed. Drawing on rich case studies from across Africa, Asia, Latin America, and Southeastern Europe, the chapters in this book map the actors and institutions of resistance, ranging from political parties and bureaucrats to social movements and transnational alliances. Rather than offering a binary view of success or failure of opposition and resistance, this book adopts a dynamic, process-driven approach, considering the conditions under which resistance emerges, adapts, and persists even in shrinking civic and political spaces.
Whether through informal bureaucratic defiance, legal mobilisation, elite rivalries, transnational alliances, strategic litigation, or protest coalitions, these strategies reveal the agency of opposition actors navigating complex and often hostile terrains. These diverse experiences force us to rethink resistance as an ongoing, collective effort rather than a single moment of reversal.
This volume spans multiple disciplines, including political science, sociology, international relations, and legal studies, making it essential reading for students, scholars, and policymakers to understand how resistance emerges, evolves, and endures in the face of authoritarian resurgence.
The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Third World Quarterly.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Citation Information
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction: Contesting autocratisation: actors and institutions of democratic resistance in a global perspective
- 1 Paperwork as statecraft: documents, politics, and bureaucratic agency in street-level organisations
- 2 Legalised resistance to autocratisation in common law Africa
- 3 The limits of autocratisation in Indonesia: power dispersal and elite competition in a compromised democracy
- 4 Resistance under confinement: resilience of protests and their limits in authoritarian Turkey
- 5 Protests for change: mass protests against competitive authoritarian regimes in the Western Balkans
- 6 Safeguarding democracy from the outside in: transnational democratic networks against autocratisation in contemporary Brazil
- 7 Formal yet ineffective opposition coordination under competitive authoritarianism: Nation Alliance in Turkey
- 8 The role of the opposition in autocratisation: the case of Turkey
- 9 What role do social accountability actors play in resisting media capture in sub-Saharan Africa? Evidence from Ghana
- 10 Social movements against Hindutva: analysing their impact on the Indian state’s support for cow protection vigilantism
- Index