Introduction: Contesting Autocratisation: Actors and Institutions of Democratic Resistance in a Global Perspective 1. Paperwork as statecraft: documents, politics, and bureaucratic agency in street-level organisations 2. Legalised resistance to autocratisation in common law Africa 3. The limits of autocratisation in Indonesia: power dispersal and elite competition in a compromised democracy 4. Resistance under confinement: resilience of protests and their limits in authoritarian Turkey 5. Protests for change: mass protests against competitive authoritarian regimes in the Western Balkans 6. Safeguarding democracy from the outside in: transnational democratic networks against autocratisation in contemporary Brazil 7. Formal yet ineffective opposition coordination under competitive authoritarianism: Nation Alliance in Turkey 8. The role of the opposition in autocratisation: the case of Turkey 9. What role do social accountability actors play in resisting media capture in sub-Saharan Africa? Evidence from Ghana 10. Social Movements against Hindutva: Analysing Their Impact on the Indian State’s Support for Cow Protection Vigilantism