Human Rights Non-Governmental Organizations in Democratic and Authoritarian Countries: A Study on How Democratic and Authoritative Government’s Infliction of Hostility and Level of Restrictiveness Impact Human Rights NGOs and Their Ability to Reach Their Target Population
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2023-04
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Keyhole Press, The University of Tampa
Abstract
Non-governmental organizations (NGOs)
have emerged to be a paramount force in diverse fields
of development, specifically human rights. An interesting
domain in this field to be researched is the interactions
between human rights NGOs and the country they
operate in. My research study aims to explore how a
government’s infliction of hostility and restrictiveness
impacts an NGO’s ability to reach its target population.
This study looks at two regime types: democratic and
authoritarian. It will conduct a comparative case study
analysis based on the levels of hostility and restrictiveness
of countries exerted by each regime type. The goal
of this study is to show that higher levels of hostility
and restrictiveness toward NGOs are more prevalent in authoritarian countries than in democratic countries.
Hence, the primary goal of this study is for it to support
the hypothesis that the more hostile and restrictive a
government is toward its human rights NGOs, the less
likely those NGOs will be able to succeed in their designed
mission of reaching its target population. This
paper was produced in Dr. Rey’s PSC 450 course.
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Recommended citation: Burgui, Isabella. “Human Rights Non-Governmental Organizations
in Democratic and Authoritarian Countries: A Study on
How Democratic and Authoritative Government’s Infliction
of Hostility and Level of Restrictiveness Impact Human
Rights NGOs and Their Ability to Reach Their Target Populations.”
Q: Journal of Undergraduate Research & Inquiry, vol. 4,
2023, pp. 93-126. https://doi.org/10.48497/CJA1-WG10
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Non-governmental Organizations (NGOs), Human Rights, Democracy, Authoritarianism, Estonia, Belarus
Citation
Burgui, Isabella. “Human Rights Non-Governmental Organizations
in Democratic and Authoritarian Countries: A Study on
How Democratic and Authoritative Government’s Infliction
of Hostility and Level of Restrictiveness Impact Human
Rights NGOs and Their Ability to Reach Their Target Populations.”
Q: Journal of Undergraduate Research & Inquiry, vol. 4,
2023, pp. 93-126. https://doi.org/10.48497/CJA1-WG10