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N. Cheeseman

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Case report Open access Oct 2026

A new agenda for supporting civil society in an authoritarian era: Building resilience, enabling flexibility, and empowering agency

This is a pivotal moment for international support to civil society, characterized by falling aid budgets and rising authoritarianism. At the same time, demands by actors in the Global South for new forms of cooperation have provided a very different challenge to established aid practices. Drawing on recent research, e...

N. Cheeseman · WIDER Working Paper · 0 citations

Review Open access Aug 2026

Rethinking Pathways of Autocratisation and Democratic Resilience in Comparative Perspective

Abstract This review article examines the rise of democratic resilience as a central concept in the comparative study of regime stability and change. Over the past decade, resilience – understood not simply as institutional survival but as the capacity of democratic systems to adapt, regenerate and deepen democratic no...

N. Cheeseman, M. Desrosiers, Edem E. Selormey · Government and Opposition · 0 citations