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Wiley Online LibraryType
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Global PolicyPublication Volume
12Publication Issue
S5Date
2021
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Scholars and NGOs have been raising alarms about the increasing political restraints that civil society organizations face globally. In this paper, we argue that closure is in fact a selective mechanism: governments attempt to reorganize civic space through a dual process of selective in- and exclusion of civil society organizations. Civil society organizations identified as critical of or even anti-government face obstruction and restraints, whereas simultaneously the space and state support for organizations identified as pro-government is expanded. Governments instrumentalize certain civil society organizations to their own benefit: they are sponsored and used to influence the realm of civil society in ways that directly legitimize state power and maintain an appearance of democracy. We illustrate our claims by discussing the reorganization of civic space in some countries of Central and Eastern Europe through the case of women’s rights activism.Publisher link
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1758-5899.12973identifiers
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1758-5899.12973ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1758-5899.12973
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