Civil Society

Civil Society
Author: Brian O'Connell
Publisher: UPNE
Total Pages: 180
Release: 1999
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9780874519259

O'Connell offers an action guide for citizen leaders and teachers--must-know information to help ensure that the democracy will last another century.

Citizenship and Civil Society

Citizenship and Civil Society
Author: Thomas Janoski
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 334
Release: 1998-02-13
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9780521635813

This book shows how legal, political, social, and participation rights are systematically related to liberties, claims and immunities.

Conflict, Citizenship and Civil Society

Conflict, Citizenship and Civil Society
Author: Partick Baert
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 278
Release: 2009-12-16
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1135259720

This book provides readers – students, researchers, academics, policy-makers, activists and interested non-specialists – with a sophisticated understanding of contemporary discussion, analysis and theorizing of issues pertaining to conflict, citizenship and civil society. It does so through thirteen pieces of most recent in-depth sociological research that delve on: challenges to citizenship, civil society and citizenship in early and late modernity, the reflexive imperative in transformations of civil society, social conflict challenges to social science approaches, methodology and explanatory power, gender, minorities-immigrants-refugees and the extension of citizenship, violence in modernity, the place of civil society for sociology, and postcolonialism, trauma, and civil society.

Civil Society

Civil Society
Author: Michael Edwards
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 185
Release: 2013-04-19
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0745675433

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.

Civil Society, Democracy, and Civic Renewal

Civil Society, Democracy, and Civic Renewal
Author: Robert K. Fullinwider
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 462
Release: 1999
Genre: Political Science
ISBN:

Civil society is receiving renewed attention from academics, politicians, journalists, community leaders, and participants in the voluntary sector. Civil Society, Democracy, and Civic Renewal brings together several of AmericaOs leading scholars_of history, sociology, political science, and philosophy_to explore the meaning of civil society, its positive and negative effects, its relation to government, and its contribution to democracy. The chapters range widely, taking up the connection between social trust and civic renewal, the role of citizen councils in environmental decisionmaking, the growth of self-help groups and their impact on community, historical patterns of civic activity by women and African Americans, and the place of expertise in public deliberation on scientific and medical issues. By examining the many disparate views of the civil society debate, this important volume will contribute to the process of civic renewal.

CIVICUS Global Survey of the State of Civil Society: Comparative perspectives

CIVICUS Global Survey of the State of Civil Society: Comparative perspectives
Author: Volkhart Heinrich
Publisher: Kumarian Press
Total Pages: 457
Release: 2007
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1565492447

The second volume of the CIVICUS Global Survey of the State of Civil Societyoffers a wide-ranging analysis of key issues facing civil society worldwide with contributions from prominent researchers and civil society practitioners. Comprising 24 chapters, the book draws on the information collected by the CIVICUS Civil Society Index project in more than 45 countries to explore issues such as civil society "s accountability, its relations to the state and corporate sector and its role in governance and development. It also includes regional overviews of the state of civil society in different continents. By bringing together a diversity of perspectives and themes, this book offers one of the most comprehensive and engaging analyses of civil society worldwide. Other Contributors: Helmut Anheier, Stefanie Bailer, Monica Blagescu, Thilo Bodenstein, David Bonbright, L. David Brown, Jerzy Celichowski, Julius Court, Wolfgang D rner, Alan Fowler, Marc M. Howard, Mohini Kak, Mahi Khallaf, Natalia Kiryttopoulou, Petr Kopecky, Barry Knight, Carmen Malena, Jacob Mati, Cas Mudde, Kumi Naidoo, Paul Opoku-Mensah, Aruna Rao, Laurie Regelbrugge, Janine Schall-Emden, Andres Serbin, Catherine Shea, Carla Suarez, Rajesh Tandon, –zlem T r, and Jan van Deth.

Civil Society, Public Sphere and Citizenship

Civil Society, Public Sphere and Citizenship
Author: Rajeev Bhargava
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 428
Release: 2005-05-27
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9780761998327

The original essays brought together in this volume examine the relationship between state and society in India, discuss ideas of citizenship, and study the broad area known as public sphere. The eminent scholars who have contributed to this volume provide numerous fresh insights into issues that have been the subject of extensive debate in recent years. The first book which deals simultaneously with civil society, the public sphere and citizenship in the contemporary context, it also provides a comparative perspective with the West.

The Politics of Civil Society

The Politics of Civil Society
Author: Fred Powell
Publisher: Policy Press
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2013-04-24
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1447307151

In this fully revised edition of his groundbreaking book, Fred Powell looks behind "the mirror of power" to discover the real civil society--or Big Society--that lies beneath it. Articulating three forms of civil society--radical, liberal, and conservative--he examines a complex interplay between state and community, arguing that citizens contend for power via civil society. This is both a historic pursuit dating to antiquity and a contemporary democratic struggle between competing visions of modernity, the stakes of which are no less than "real" politics themselves as experienced by everyday citizens. The second edition includes a new concluding chapter on practical and policy implications.