Recent years have witnessed a noticeable democratic decline worldwide, revealing a
tendency of voters to elect leaders with authoritarian tendencies. In East-Central European …

Prior research determines whether politicians at rallies make programmatic, clientelist or
personalist appeals. We argue that this reductive approach obscures the variety of meaning …

Many opposition parties in electoral-authoritarian regimes identify as democracy
movements. I ask: what ideologies do they publicly express? The first-glance answer is …

Studies analyse what politicians communicate at rallies. Yet most do so to determine what
politicians communicate at large. Therefore, they implicitly assume that what they …

This paper explores the temporalities behind resource nationalism and the liquefied natural
gas project (LNG) in Tanzania. At a cost of $42 billion, the LNG project would be one of the …

This chapter discusses the centrality of sustainability as a meta-concept shaped by everyday
negotiation of the trade-offs between various public values. It uses the political, legal …