Articles by Venelin Bochev

March 22, 2023

♟️ The resistance playbook: disrupting autocratisation

Venelin Bochev

Resistance to autocratisation is not limited to democracies. In fact, Luca Tomini, Suzan Gibril, and Venelin Bochev demonstrate that the main actors resisting autocratisation and their strategies vary across regime types. Analysing resistance strategies from democracy to fully authoritarian regimes can be invaluable beyond academia to practitioners and activists

Venelin Bochev

PhD Candidate, CEVIPOL, Université libre de Bruxelles

Venelin works on the project Defending democracy: resistance strategies against autocratization attempts (RESAUT).

His PhD thesis deals with parliamentary resistance against autocratisation in Southeast Europe.

He tweets @bochev_venelin

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