Svein-Erik Helle and Lise Rakner (2017)
Helle, Svein-Erik. & Lise Rakner. 2017. “The Impact of Elections: The Case of Uganda”. In Johannes Gerschewski & Christoph Stefes (eds) Crisis in Autocratic Regimes. Boulder: Lynne Rienner, pp. 111-134.
About the book: What makes autocratic regimes vulnerable? Why, in times of crisis, do some of these regimes break down while others weather the storm? This is the puzzle addressed in Crisis in Autocratic Regimes. Taking a long-term perspective, the authors focus not on sudden shocks and ruptures, but instead on gradual processes of disintegration as […]
Alf Gunvald Nilsen and Kenneth Bo Nielsen (eds.) (2016)
Steering Committee Member at the Centre on Law and Social Transformation, Alf Nilsen, has together with Kenneth Bo Nilsen edited a new book on social movements in India. The book “Social Movements and the State in India: Deepening Democracy?” is published on Palgrave Macmillian UK and raises questions of the extent to which social movements […]
Maja Janmyr (2016)
Refugee Survey Quarterly (2016) 35 (4): 58-78.
Lebanon has had an ambiguous approach to the more than one million Syrians seeking protection in the country since 2011. The country is neither party to the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees, nor does it have any national legislation dealing with refugees. In October 2014, Lebanon’s Council of Ministers adopted the first […]
Maja Janmyr (2016)
Based on original fieldwork, Maja Janmyr examines in the recently published article “Nubians in Contemporary Egypt: Mobilizing Return to Ancestral Lands” how Nubians in Egypt have mobilized to demand a return to ancestral lands along the Nile River. It argues that the emergence of several unprecedented legal and political opportunities in the past decade paved the way […]
Andrea Castagnola and Saul Lopez Noriega (eds.) (2016)
Andrea Castagnola, Steering Committee Member and Coordinator of Judicial Independence Unit, have together with Saul Lopez Noriega edited the book “Judicial Politics in Mexico. The Supreme Court and the Transition to Democracy” (Routledge). After more than seventy years of uninterrupted authoritarian government headed by the Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI), Mexico formally began the transition to […]
Andrea Castagnola and Saul Lopez Noriega (eds) (2016)
A recently edited book that examines the role of the Mexican Supreme Court in the transition to democracy.
Defago, María Angélica Peñas, and José Manuel Morán Faúndes (2016)
Religião & Sociedade 35.2 (2015): 340-362.
Although the hierarchy of the Catholic Church and some evangelical churches continue to be the central opposition to sexual and reproductive rights (SRR), in recent decades, various sectors from the civil society have also begun to get politically active with the purpose of resisting the advance of the SRR agenda. Several “pro-life” NGOs are becoming […]
Faúndes, José Manuel Morán, and María Angélica Peñas Defago (2016)
Latin American Perspectives 43.3 (2016): 144-162.
Over the past few decades political processes recognizing and broadening sexual and reproductive rights have produced a reaction from conservative sectors seeking to block those gains. Although the Catholic Church hierarchy and some Evangelical churches have led the opposition to these rights, various sectors of civil society have begun to foment resistance to pluralist sexual […]
Defago Peñas, M. A. (2016)
In "Abortion: Rights and Limits of Women´s Freedom". Ed. Godinho, A.; Salomao Leite, G. & Dadalto, L. GZ Editorial, Rio de Janeiro.
