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Islamic Awakening or Pro-Democracy Movement
American Journal of Islam and Society, 2013 As influential players in the Middle East’s regional politics, both American and Iranian officials are trying to define and interpret the wave of Arab revolutions in a way that resonates with their own political narratives.
Esmaeil Esfandiary
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ASEAS - Austrian Journal of South-East Asian Studies, 2021 In April 2020, in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, memes addressing the Thai monarchy in a critical way appeared on Twitter under the hashtag #MilkTeaAlliance, which for a couple of days trended worldwide.
Wolfram Schaffar +1 more
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Civil Society and Pro-Democracy Social Movements: Troubled Relations Within Authoritarian Regimes? [PDF]
Frontiers in Political Science, 2021 This article tries to conceptually lay down the troubled relations between civil society and social movements within authoritarian regimes. This is done by, first, bringing clarity to the conceptual relationship between civil society and social movement ...
Murad Nasibov
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The Hong Kong Pro-democracy Movement: Challenges and Divisions in the Past Decade [PDF]
Contemporary Chinese Political Economy and Strategic Relations: An International Journal, 2023 This article is an attempt to examine the challenges to Hong Kong’s pro-democracy movement and the movement’s internal divisions in the past decade or so.
Joseph Yu-shek Cheng
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Yellow Vests: Anti-austerity, pro-democracy, and popular (not populist)
Frontiers in Political Science, 2023 In the context of neoliberalism and its consequences for the economy and for democracy, this article offers a distinct framing of the political nature of the French “Yellow Vests” (Gilets Jaunes) movement. Fundamentally, the movement should be understood
Michael J. Carpenter, Benjamin Perrier
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On the Necessity of Ritual Sensibility in Public Protest: A Hong Kong Perspective
Religions, 2021 In Hong Kong, the efficacy of ritualized protest has become an issue of hot debate in recent years. Whereas ritualized protest is a long-term political practice in the Hong Kong pro-democracy movement that has considerable influence, skepticism about it ...
Bryan K. M. Mok
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The Dynamics of Social Movements in Unrecognized States—A Comparative Study
Frontiers in Political Science, 2021 In the political realm, our world is currently experiencing both a massive decline in democracies as well as the quality of democratic regimes in all geographical regions, and a rise in pro-democracy social change movements.
Hilmi Ulas
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Editorial: Pro-democracy movements in a comparative perspective
Frontiers in Political Science, 2023 published
Grimm, Sonja +3 more
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The Pro-democracy Movement: A Lost Decade? [PDF]
European View, 2007 This article draws on statistical data on the political expectations of the Hong Kong population to evaluate democratic trends in the region after its return to China in 1997. In spite of the democratic awakening with the protest rallies of 2003, the prospects for Hong Kong's democratisation have lessened in recent years.
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Abstentions in 2014 and 2019 Indonesian elections: Case study of pro-democracy activists
Simulacra, 2020 This article discusses how the dynamics of the abstentions phenomenon among pro-democracy activists in the 2014-2019 general election in Indonesia. While pro-democracy activists have increasingly chosen “struggle within”, there are still critical groups ...
M Syaeful Anam, Gumilar Rusliwa Somantri
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