Activists Against Autocrats: TSMO Networks and Democratic Diffusion

Pinckney, Jonathan; Chin, John J.

doi:10.3389/fpos.2021.705223

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“…In a quantitative study using a large dataset on "transnational social movement organisations" (TSMO) from 1953 to 2013, Pinckney and Chin (2021) find that the strongest influence of TSMO activities can be found in their promotion of counter-hegemonic discourses. The authors conclude that "policymakers interested in encouraging democracy should look beyond formal, top-down mechanisms and pay attention to the perhaps unruly and yet vibrant world of transnational social movement organizations", adding that they may be "important cross-national carriers of participatory democratic norms, practices, and mobilizational capacity" (p.12).…”

Section: The Risks Of Providing External Support To Informal Social M...mentioning

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Donor Support for ‘Informal Social Movements’

Hicks¹

2022

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“Social movements” are by definition informal or semi-formal, as opposed to the formal structure of a stable association, such as a club, a corporation, or a political party. They are relatively long lasting over a period of weeks, months, or even years rather than flaring up for a few hours or a few days and then disappearing (Smelser et al., 2020). There is a substantial and growing body of work dedicated to social movements, encompassing a wide range of views about how to define them (Smelser et al., 2020). This is complicated by the use of other terms which shade into the idea of “social movements”, such as grass-roots mobilisation/ movements, non-traditional civil society organisations, voluntary organisations, civic space, new civic activism, active citizenship, to name a few. There is also an implied informality to the term “social movements”, so that the research for this rapid review used both “social movement” and “informal social movement”. Thus this rapid review seeks to find out what approaches do donors use to support “informal social movements” in their programming, and what evidence do they base their strategies on. The evidence found during the course of this rapid review was drawn from both the academic literature, and think-tank and donor reports. The academic literature found was extremely large and predominantly drawn from single case studies around the world, with few comparative studies. The literature on donor approaches found from both donors and think tanks was not consistently referenced to research evidence but tended to be based on interviews with experienced staff and recipients.

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Section: The Risks Of Providing External Support To Informal Social M...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Donor Support for ‘Informal Social Movements’

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2022

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Weniger Demokratie wagen? Möglichkeiten und Grenzen liberaler Friedensstrategien nach der Zeitenwende

Hegemann

Kahl

2023

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ZusammenfassungDer Beitrag nimmt aktuelle Diskussionen um den Umgang mit Russlands Krieg in der Ukraine zum Anlass, um grundsätzlich die Möglichkeiten und Grenzen liberaler Friedensstrategien, die insbesondere in der deutschen Friedensforschung stark verankert sind, zu erörtern. Wir argumentieren, dass die Friedensforschung weiterhin an ihrem Anspruch festhalten sollte, Strategien für einen nachhaltigen Frieden aufzuzeigen, der über reine Abschreckung bzw. das Denken in Blöcken hinausreicht. Sie sollte deshalb ihre bisherigen Erkenntnisse zu Friedensbedingungen nicht vollends über Bord werfen und weiterhin auch die innere Verfasstheit der beteiligten Staaten und ihrer Gesellschaften im Blick behalten. Der russische Angriff auf die Ukraine verdeutlicht gerade, wie das Fehlen demokratischer Kontrollinstanzen und die Abschottung autokratischer Führungen die Eskalation militärischer Konflikte befördern und den Frieden unterminieren. Der Beitrag diskutiert, wie und inwieweit sich die Grundannahmen und zentralen empirischen Erkenntnisse liberaler Friedenstheorie weiterhin auf den Umgang mit Russland und anderen revanchistischen Autokratien anwenden lassen. Im Sinne einer kritischen Selbstreflexion der Friedensforschung erörtert er auch die Grenzen liberaler Friedensstrategien und bettet dies in Debatten über eine breitere Krise liberaler Ansätze und die Lehren internationaler Demokratieförderung der Vergangenheit ein.

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Activists Against Autocrats: TSMO Networks and Democratic Diffusion

Cited by 2 publications

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Donor Support for ‘Informal Social Movements’

Donor Support for ‘Informal Social Movements’

Weniger Demokratie wagen? Möglichkeiten und Grenzen liberaler Friedensstrategien nach der Zeitenwende

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