Civil Society Revisited

Author : Kerstin Jacobsson
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1785335529
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Civil Society Revisited written by Kerstin Jacobsson and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2017-06-01 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In much social scientific literature, Polish civil society has been portrayed as weak and passive. This volume offers a much-needed corrective, challenging this characterization on both theoretical and empirical grounds and suggesting new ways of conceptualizing civil society to better account for events on the ground as well as global trends such as neoliberalism, migration, and the renewal of nationalist ideologies. Focusing on forms of collective action that researchers have tended to overlook, the studies gathered here show how public discourse legitimizes certain claims and political actions as “true” civil society, while others are too often dismissed. Taken together, they critique a model of civil society that is ‘made from above’.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Civil society revisited written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Wilson C. McWilliams
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780742549159
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Active Society Revisited written by Wilson C. McWilliams and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2006 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Active Society, published in 1968, is the most ambitious book in Amitai Etzioni's remarkable career. In this new collection of essays, Wilson Carey McWilliams brings together scholars in a range of disciplines to analyze the significance and shortcomings of this important work.

Author : Lester M. Salamon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 22 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Emerging Sector Revisited written by Lester M. Salamon and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Peter R. Kingstone
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN 13 : 0822973472
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Democratic Brazil Revisited written by Peter R. Kingstone and published by University of Pittsburgh Pre. This book was released on 2008-10-26 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brazil presents a compelling example of twenty-first century democracy in action. In this sequel to their landmark study Democratic Brazil, editors Peter Kingstone and Timothy J. Power have assembled a distinguished group of U.S.- and Brazilian-based scholars to assess the impact of competitive politics on Brazilian government, institutions, economics, and society. The 2002 election of Lula da Silva and his Worker's Party promised a radical shift toward progressive reform, transparency, and accountability, opposing the earlier centrist and market-oriented policies of the Cardoso government. But despite the popular support reflected in his 2006 reelection, many observers claim that Lula and his party have fallen short of their platform promises. They have moved to the center in their policies, done little to change the elitist political culture of the past, and have engaged in "politics as usual" in executive-legislative relations, leading to allegations of corruption. Under these conditions, democracy in Brazil remains an enigma. Progress in some areas is offset by stagnation and regression in others: while the country has seen renewed economic growth and significant progress in areas of health care and education, the gap between rich and poor remains vast. Rampant crime, racial inequality, and a pandemic lack of personal security taint the vision of progress. These dilemmas make Brazil a particularly striking case for those interested in Latin America and democratization in general.

Author : John Keane
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0745667414
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Civil Society written by John Keane and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-05-06 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is only a decade ago that the eighteenth-century distinction between civil society and the state seemed old-fashioned, an object of cynicism, even of outright hostility. In this important new book, John Keane shows how, in a wholly unexpected reversal of fortunes, this antiquated distinction has since become voguish among politicians, academics, journalists, business leaders, relief agencies and citizens' organizations. John Keane examines the various sources and phases of the dramatic world-wide popularization of the term. He traces its reappearance in a wide range of contexts - from China to Tunisia, from South Africa to the emerging European Union - and clarifies the conflicting grammars and vocabularies of the language of civil society. Considerable care is taken to highlight the different possible meanings of the distinction between civil society and the state. Keane also takes the reader into previously uncharted intellectual territory by demonstrating that the civil society perspective contains unharnessed potentials: that it is possible to develop bold new images of civil society that alter the ways in which we think about matters such as power, property, violence, politics, publicity and democracy. Written with style and imagination, this important book by John Keane will be of great interest to students and scholars in politics, media studies, sociology, social and political theory, and to a broader public audience interested in the central debates and political developments of our time.

Author : Michael Edwards
Publisher : Polity
ISBN 13 : 0745645852
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Civil Society written by Michael Edwards and published by Polity. This book was released on 2009-08-03 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since its publication in 2004, Civil Society has become a standard work of reference for all those who seek to understand the role of voluntary citizen action in the contemporary world. In this thoroughly-revised edition, Michael Edwards updates the arguments and evidence presented in the original and adds major new material on issues such as civil society in Africa and the Middle East, global civil society, information technology and new forms of citizen organizing. He explains how in the future the pressures of state encroachment, resurgent individualism, and old and familiar forces of nationalism and fundamentalism in new clothes will test and re-shape the practice of citizen action in both positive and negative ways. Civil Society will help readers of all persuasions to navigate these choppy waters with greater understanding, insight and success. Colleges and universities, foundations and NGOs, public policy-makers, journalists and commissions of inquiry – all have used Edwards’s book to understand and strengthen the vital role that civil society can play in deepening democracy, re-building community, and addressing poverty, inequality and injustice. This new edition will be required reading for anyone who is interested in creating a better world through citizen action.

Author : Paul Dumouchel
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1782386947
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Social Bonds as Freedom written by Paul Dumouchel and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2015-08-01 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Central to discussions of multiculturalism and minority rights in modern liberal societies is the idea that the particular demands of minority groups contradict the requirements of equality, anonymity, and universality for citizenship and belonging. The contributors to this volume question the significance of this dichotomy between the universal and the particular, arguing that it reflects how the modern state has instituted the basic rights and obligations of its members and that these institutions are undergoing fundamental transformations under the pressure of globalization. They show that the social bonds uniting groups constitute the means of our freedom, rather than obstacles to achieving the universal.

Author : David Brin
Publisher : Perseus (for Hbg)
ISBN 13 : 0738201448
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Transparent Society written by David Brin and published by Perseus (for Hbg). This book was released on 1999-05-07 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Argues that the privacy of individuals actually hampers accountability, which is the foundation of any civilized society and that openness is far more liberating than secrecy

Author : Mario Diani
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107100003
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cement of Civil Society written by Mario Diani and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-05-21 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyzes civil society as a field of organizations mobilizing on collective goals. Drawing upon field work on citizens' organizations in two British cities, this book combines network analysis and social movement theories to show how to represent civil society as a system of relations between multiple actors.