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SUMMARY:Conny Roggeband: Backlash and Beyond: How autocratising regimes weaponise gender
DESCRIPTION:Across the world\, democratic backsliding has a gendered face. Autocratising regimes do not simply roll back women’s rights as a side effect of their political projects — they strategically deploy opposition to gender equality as a core mechanism of democratic erosion. Drawing on a decade of collaborative research\, we show how autocratic-leaning leaders mobilise a distinctive repertoire of gendered repression: limiting women’s bodily autonomy and public roles\, dismantling feminist policy infrastructures\, selectively closing civic space to silence critical organisations while sponsoring regime-aligned ones\, and suppressing the production of critical gender knowledge through attacks on academic freedom and gender studies programmes. Misogyny\, in other words\, is not incidental to these regimes — it is constitutive of them. Next\, we turn to the mechanism that sits at the heart of this dynamic: violence. We argue that gendered political violence is not merely a symptom of autocratisation but one of its key driving forces. Autocratising regimes deploy the state in a double movement — as a weapon targeting politically active women\, LGBTQIA+ people\, and feminist civil society with harassment\, intimidation\, and legal persecution; and as a shield\, extending impunity to perpetrators and dismantling protective frameworks by deliberate design. Violence thereby shifts from a structural background condition of gender inequality to an overtly instrumentalized tool of regime consolidation.\nConny Roggeband (Senior Budapest Open Society Fellow- IAS\, University of Amsterdam) & Andrea Krizsán (CEU Democracy Institute\, CEU Vienna)\nImage: Conny Roggeband\nRSVP Agnes Bendik at bendikag@ceu.edu
URL:https://szocioblog.hu/event/conny-roggeband-backlash-and-beyond-how-autocratising-regimes-weaponise-gender/
LOCATION:CEU Budapest Campus: 101-es terem\, Nádor utca 15.\, 1051 Budapest
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SUMMARY:Informal Institutions\, Republicanism\, and the Origins of Competitive Politics: The Puzzle of ‘Machiavellian Moments’ in Post-Soviet Eurasia
DESCRIPTION:Informal Institutions\, Republicanism\, and the Origins of Competitive Politics: The Puzzle of ‘Machiavellian Moments’ in Post-Soviet Eurasia\nThe project is devoted to the new interpretation of political development\, democracy\, and republicanism in the post-Soviet region. I look for an answer to the crucial question: how democratic breakthroughs could occur in post-Soviet Eurasia and in countries like Russia? In contrast to mainstream literature\, I underline the decisive role of informal politics as a tool and a mode of governance in the region\, which has long remained an under-researched topic\, and investigate how corrupted oligarchic and clan systems\, in some cases\, unexpectedly stimulate competitive politics. Surprisingly\, in some cases\, informal patronal politics can paradoxically encourage the development of political pluralism and political contestation (Ukraine\, Moldova\, Georgia\, Armenia\, and Kyrgyzstan) through a combination of formal and informal power-sharing arrangements between major oligarchic groups and regional clans. I argue that\, under certain circumstances\, these equilibria can produce pro-republican „Machiavellian moments” that may lead to democratic breakthroughs even in highly personalistic and authoritarian regimes\, even if\, in most cases\, they ultimately fail and either consolidate or reintroduce authoritarian power. The term „Machiavellian moment\,” introduced by the late intellectual historian J.G.A. Pocock\, refers to the challenges political systems face in maintaining stability and legitimacy while balancing the competing interests of various political actors. This concept is central to my analysis of governance and democratic developments in post-Soviet Eurasia and on a global scale. I conceptualize the current situation as a „Machiavellian moment” for post-Soviet Eurasia\, in which political turmoil and the shocks of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine affect both formal and informal institutions\, reshaping governance systems\, political cleavages\, and political regime configurations at both national and regional levels.\nRSVP Agnes Bendik at bendikag@ceu.edu
URL:https://szocioblog.hu/event/informal-institutions-republicanism-and-the-origins-of-competitive-politics-the-puzzle-of-machiavellian-moments-in-post-soviet-eurasia/
LOCATION:CEU Budapest Campus: 101-es terem\, Nádor utca 15.\, 1051 Budapest
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SUMMARY:Felforgatókönyv: Felelős önkormányzatok szociálpolitikája
DESCRIPTION:A Felforgatókönyv kötetben egy lehetséges rendszerváltozás főbb kérdéseire\, köztük az önkormányzatiság és a szociális ágazat működésének reformjára fogalmaztunk meg javaslatokat.Esti beszélgetéseinken mindazokat várjuk\, akik nyitottan\, a nehéz kérdésektől sem visszariadva szeretnének velünk együtt gondolkodni a jövőről.ÁPRILIS 29-én 17.30-kor az önkormányzatok megújuló felelősségéről lesz szó. Kinek-miben-hogyan kellene változtatni\, hogy hatékony önkormányzati szociálpolitikáról beszélhessünk? Milyen közigazgatás támogatná az erősödő önkormányzatokat? Mi lehet önkormányzati hatáskör\, és milyen a jó helyi szociális ellátás?Kerekasztal résztvevők:– Dósa Piroska- igazgatásszervező és gyermekvédelmi szakember– Velkey Gábor Dániel (PhD)\, tanár\, geográfus\, szociológus\, ELTE KRTK tudományos főmunkatárs– Varga Illés Levente- építész\, az Érdlakó bloggere
URL:https://szocioblog.hu/event/felforgatokonyv-felelos-onkormanyzatok-szocialpolitikaja/
LOCATION:Bolygó Közösségi Tér: Margit körút 28-32\, 1027 Budapest
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