By Chris van der Borgh
During the last decade, overseas human rights firms and imagine tanks have expressed a turning out to be obstacle that the distance of civil society enterprises world wide is stressed. This e-book examines the pressures skilled via NGOs in 4 partial democracies: Guatemala, Honduras, Indonesia and the Philippines.
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In many countries these conditions are not (fully) met. While this is no reason to claim that countries with lower levels of economic development should simply wait until conditions are ripe, there is certainly reason to take into account the particular characteristics of the regime that affect, and possibly limit, the development of and the space for civil society. The question then is: how, when and why do these limitations manifest themselves in partial democracies? It is important to note that the existence of associations, the formulation of interests by these associations and the strategies they employ in different arenas are not necessarily seen as a positive force by all actors in society.
Meanwhile in other instances, “informal” rules and patterns of domination can be dominant, and mixed forms will be present. ” In these arenas, struggles around certain policy or political issues take place, following particular rules of the game (that may themselves evolve or change in the process). This means, as Migdal (2001, p. 99) argues, that 30 NGOs under Pressure in Partial Democracies an arena is a space in which struggles for domination take place, while each arena has its own patterns of domination and opposition.
Efforts to deepen democracy), it does not answer the question of when or how such conflicts escalate and lead to pressures on organizations promoting democratic change. We will address these questions in the next chapter. The second explanation indicates to a certain extent when and why civil society organizations may experience pressures. It does, however, still place much emphasis on the presence or absence of the state. It does not take into account the multiple and qualitatively different presences of state representatives and agencies.