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Civil society between repression and cooptation: adjusting to shrinking space in Cambodia
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Abstract Scholarship on autocratisation has investigated the strategies of cooptation and repression that autocratic and autocratising regimes employ to maintain and enhance their power. However, it has barely explored how civil society reacts to these strategies. Concurrently, the existing research on civil... mehr
Scholarship on autocratisation has investigated the strategies of cooptation and repression that autocratic and autocratising regimes employ to maintain and enhance their power. However, it has barely explored how civil society reacts to these strategies. Concurrently, the existing research on civil society and social movements mostly suggests that civil society organisations (CSOs) will either resist autocratic repression or disband because of it, thereby often neglecting the possibility of CSOs' adaptation to autocratic constraints. In this article, I seek to bridge these theoretical gaps with empirical evidence from Cambodia. I argue that for CSOs that operate in autocratic and autocratising regimes allowing themselves to become coopted by the regime can constitute a deliberate strategy to avoid repression, secure their survival, and exert social and political influence. However, while this strategy often seems to be effective in allowing CSOs to survive and escape large-scale repression, its success in enabling civil society to exert social and political influence remains limited, owing to structural limitations embedded in the autocratic context. Moreover, CSOs' acceptance of cooptation often enhances divisions within civil society.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Kambodscha; Südostasien; autoritäres System; Machtsicherung; politische Partizipation; Zivilgesellschaft; politischer Einfluss
Klassifikation
politische Willensbildung, politische Soziologie, politische Kultur
Freie Schlagwörter
Verhältnis Gesellschaft - Staat; Verhältnis gesellschaftliche Vereinigung - Staat
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2023
Seitenangabe
S. 395-420
Zeitschriftentitel
Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs, 42 (2023) 3
ISSN
1868-4882
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)