State regulation of organized civil society in hybrid regimes: A systematic assessment of cross-national variations in the regulation of civil society organizations in seven post-soviet countries

Beimenbetov S.
2021 Verlag Ferdinand Schoningh

Central Asian Affairs
2021 #8 Issue 2 120 - 149 pp.

How do the post-Soviet countries differ in their regulatory approaches to organized civil society? This study provides a systematic and comprehensive assessment of relative differences and similarities in the regulation of civil society organizations in seven post-Soviet countries: Armenia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, and Ukraine. Empirically, the study offers a regulatory index that makes it possible to map and compare relative differences and similarities between these countries regulatory approaches to civil society. The findings show that post-Soviet authoritarian countries do not use similar levels of repression against organized civil society. The study provides an account of how different political configurations explain relative differences in the extent to which post-Soviet authoritarian countries repress their respective civil societies.

Authoritarianism , Civil society , Post-Soviet countries , State regulation

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