Abstract Existing research on civil society organizations (CSOs) facing restricted civic space largely focuses the crackdown freedoms and CSOs’ strategies to handle these restrictions, often emphasizing impact their more confrontational public roles. However, many CSOs shape roles through collaborative relations with government. Drawing interviews state agencies CSOs, this article analyes state...

Drawing on the literature framing, we explore emotional framing differences in radical and reformative NGOs over time. We analyse sentiment of a sample 5880 press releases issued by five positioned differently reformative-radical spectrum examine how they address large companies. Our findings reveal an increasing polarisation these NGOs' with individual gravitating towards ideal-type or positio...

Abstract Ten years after the publication of United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs), implementation efforts are in full swing. Companies particular have used their existing corporate social responsibility (CSR) structures to make sense implement Pillar II UNGPs. This process has led a co-optation business human rights (BHR) agenda. One manifestation such is instru...

In unrelated sign languages event structure is reflected in the dynamic form of verbs, and hearing non-signers are known to be able recognise these visual structures. This study assessed time course neural processing mechanisms examine pathways for incorporation physical-perceptual motion features into linguistic system. an EEG study, classified telic/atelic verb signs (two-choice lexical decis...

In this article, we reflect on the changing trajectories of agrarian movements in Indonesia. two decades after independence, a left-populist alliance peasants, plantation workers, and other affiliate organizations achieved mass following were embraced by President Sukarno. aftermath their violent destruction, Suharto regime reordered into single corporatist model. Suharto's downfall opened way ...

Though governments historically have been a men’s club, women are increasingly gaining access. We argue that democratic institutions important drivers of women’s inclusion in government. This stems from the rationales autocratic versus leaders when selecting ministers. Autocrats fear coup by inner-circle elites, who mostly men, incentivizing them to assign ministerial positions as co-optation. ...