This book discusses the diversity and resilience in a hybrid regime
where civil society organisations are either provided with complex
sets of opportunities or face severe constraints. By studying the
case of Iran between 1997 and 2013, it shows how the Islamic
Republic regime went into two opposite directions under two
presidencies and played in-between supporting and suppressing
advocacy NGOs. After accommodating a novel theoretical framework
enabling scholars to identify the contributing factors of diversity
in the regime, four case-study chapters are designated for
comparing the women's rights and environmental NGOs across local
and national governments. These two political and technical policy
areas demonstrate the different scopes of freedoms for advocacy
NGOs. The contrasting narratives of the civil activists and
policymakers imply paradoxes and shifts in the arrangement of
opportunities for action and advocacy, although the leadership and
structure of the regime remained unchanged during the period of
study.
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