The Civil Society Reader
Title | The Civil Society Reader PDF eBook |
Author | Virginia Hodgkinson |
Publisher | UPNE |
Pages | 394 |
Release | 2009-08-15 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1584658312 |
A "civil society" anthology for experts and students alike.
The Essential Civil Society Reader
Title | The Essential Civil Society Reader PDF eBook |
Author | Don E. Eberly |
Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield |
Pages | 424 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 9780847697199 |
Around the world politicians and intellectuals seek to restore civil society by cultivating stronger public ethics and social institutions. This text presents classic writings of leading scholars and organizers who have brought the civil society debate to the forefront.
Civil Society and Democracy
Title | Civil Society and Democracy PDF eBook |
Author | Carolyn M. Elliott |
Publisher | |
Pages | 526 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Political Science |
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This book seeks to make accessible a selection of the best pieces written on civil society and brings together theoretical and empirical material. The essays discuss the theory of civil society, civil society in South Asia in particular and ways of strengthening civil society.
Civil Society
Title | Civil Society PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Edwards |
Publisher | John Wiley & Sons |
Pages | 159 |
Release | 2013-08-20 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0745659055 |
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.
Challenges to Civil Society
Title | Challenges to Civil Society PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | Cambria Press |
Pages | 431 |
Release | |
Genre | |
ISBN | 1621969665 |
Explaining Civil Society Development
Title | Explaining Civil Society Development PDF eBook |
Author | Lester M. Salamon |
Publisher | JHU Press |
Pages | 341 |
Release | 2017-09-15 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1421422999 |
How historically rooted power dynamics have shaped the evolution of civil society globally. The civil society sector—made up of millions of nonprofit organizations, associations, charitable institutions, and the volunteers and resources they mobilize—has long been the invisible subcontinent on the landscape of contemporary society. For the past twenty years, however, scholars under the umbrella of the Johns Hopkins Comparative Nonprofit Sector Project have worked with statisticians to assemble the first comprehensive, empirical picture of the size, structure, financing, and role of this increasingly important part of modern life. What accounts for the enormous cross-national variations in the size and contours of the civil society sector around the world? Drawing on the project’s data, Lester M. Salamon, S. Wojciech Sokolowski, Megan A. Haddock, and their colleagues raise serious questions about the ability of the field’s currently dominant preference and sentiment theories to account for these variations in civil society development. Instead, using statistical and comparative historical materials, the authors posit a novel social origins theory that roots the variations in civil society strength and composition in the relative power of different social groupings and institutions during the transition to modernity. Drawing on the work of Barrington Moore, Dietrich Rueschemeyer, and others, Explaining Civil Society Development provides insight into the nonprofit sector’s ability to thrive and perform its distinctive roles. Combining solid data and analytical clarity, this pioneering volume offers a critically needed lens for viewing the evolution of civil society and the nonprofit sector throughout the world.
Civil Society and Political Theory
Title | Civil Society and Political Theory PDF eBook |
Author | Jean L. Cohen |
Publisher | MIT Press |
Pages | 804 |
Release | 1994-03-29 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 9780262531214 |
In this first serious work on the theory of civil society to appear in many years, Jean Cohen and Andrew Arato contend that the concept of civil society articulates a contested terrain in the West that could become the primary locus for the expansion of democracy and rights. In this major contribution to contemporary political theory, Jean Cohen and Andrew Arato argue that the concept of civil society articulates a contested terrain in the West that could become a primary locus for the expansion of democracy and rights.