The backlash of the civic space in populist regimes

Session Submission Type: Paper Session

Abstract

The civic space has been under attack in the last years, populist regimes doesn’t like the equilibrium of power, so they react against the CSO making their development much more difficult or some of them are co-opted by the state. Al the same time some citizens start to reject the organizations because of the attacks of the populist leaders and the media. At the same time illiberal regimes don’t stay local, so they start to promote backlashes in a transitional bias.

Sub Unit

• Populism and the Third Sector

Moderator

• Büke Boşnak, Istanbul Bilgi University

Individual Presentations

• Advocacy NGOs in Poland: from democracy's playground to its battlefield - Galia Chimiak, Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences

• Hostility toward civil society: CSO perspectives on populism and shrinking civic space in the Czech Republic - Robin Mann, Wales Institute of Social and Economic Research and Data (WISERD)