Tag: democracy

New publication: Civil society and democratic regression in Southeast Asia

The global regression of democracy is often accompanied by shrinking spaces for civil society actors. These shrinking spaces can also be observed in Southeast Asia and jeopardize the democratic progress of the last three decades. The special issue of the Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs, e...

Guest Talk in Harvard Seminar on Global Challenges to Democracy

On October 11, 2023, Prof. Dr. Katrin Kinzelbach gave the inaugural talk in a new seminar series on Global Challenges to Democracy, organized by the Ash Center at Harvard Kennedy School in cooperation with the Carr Center for Human Rights. Her talk was entitled “Academic Freedom: Empirical Data on a...

„Not everything is bad“ – Issue takes stock of thirty years of German unity with contribution from Erlangen

The Regional Agency for Civic Education Baden-Württemberg (lpb bw) releases a double issue of its journal Bürger & Staat celebrating the German unity in 2020. Erlangen’s Erik Vollmann contributes an analysis of the support for democracy in Eastern and Western Germany. Not unifying or unified ...