Civil Society, Institutional Change and the Politics of Reform
Author : László Bruszt
Publisher :
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 27,81 MB
Release : 2010
Category :
ISBN : 9789292302757
Author : László Bruszt
Publisher :
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 27,81 MB
Release : 2010
Category :
ISBN : 9789292302757
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 25,30 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Civil society
ISBN :
Author : John E. Trent
Publisher : Verlag Barbara Budrich
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 36,29 MB
Release : 2007-06-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 3866499108
This book contends that civil society must mobilize its capacities to bring a new will to national and international politics and oblige governments to act. It starts by demonstrating the need for institutional change at the UN and then shows how, both in the past and the present, leading individuals and nongovernmental organizations, using their knowledge base and their organizational networks, have lead the fight for international organizations. After a summary of major UN reform proposals over the years, the book concludes by identifying leading global ""reformers"" and elaborating a detailed plan for a global reform movement to spearhead the modernization of the UN system.
Author : Muthiah Alagappa
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 46,49 MB
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 9780804750974
A systematic investigation of the connection between civil society and political change in Asia - change toward open, participatory, and accountable politics. Its findings suggest that the link between a vibrant civil society and democracy is indeterminate: certain civil society organizations support democracy; thers could undermine it.
Author : Lindsay Mayka
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 46,4 MB
Release : 2019-02-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1108470874
Explains how and why some national mandates for participatory policymaking develop into powerful institutions for citizen engagement.
Author : Lindsay Mayka
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 27,15 MB
Release : 2019-02-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1108576826
While prior studies have shown the importance of participatory institutions in strengthening civil society and in improving policy outcomes, we know much less about why some participatory institutions take root while others do not. This book explains the divergent trajectories of nationally mandated participatory institutions' 'stickiness' by highlighting the powerful and lasting impacts of their origins in different policy-reform projects. Mayka argues that participatory institutions take root when they are bundled into sweeping policy reforms, which upend the status quo and mobilize unexpected coalitions behind participatory institution building. In contrast, participatory institutions created through reforms focused on deepening democracy are easy for entrenched interests to dismantle and sideline. Building Participatory Institutions in Latin America draws on rich case studies of participatory institutions in Brazil and Colombia across three policy areas, offering the first cross-national comparative study of participatory institutions mandated at the national level.
Author : Gordon White
Publisher :
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 14,43 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
1. The search for civil society
Author : Fredrik Engelstad
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 18,93 MB
Release : 2017-04-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 3110546337
The main focus of the book is institutional change in the Scandinavian model, with special emphasis on Norway. There are many reasons to pay closer attention to the Norwegian case when it comes to analyses of changes in the public sphere. In the country’s political history, the arts and the media played a particular role in the processes towards sovereignty at the beginning of the 20th century. On a par with the other Scandinavian countries, Norway is in the forefront in the world in the distribution and uses of Internet technology. As an extreme case, the most corporatist society within the family of the “Nordic Model”, it offers an opportunity both for intriguing case studies and for challenging and refining existing theory on processes of institutional change in media policy and cultural policy. It supplements two recent, important books on political economy in Scandinavia: Varieties of Liberalization and the New Politics of Social Solidarity (Kathleen Thelen, 2014), and The Political Construction of Business Interests (Cathie Jo Martin and Duane Swank, 2013). There are further reasons to pay particular attention to the Scandinavian, and more specifically the Norwegian cases: (i) They are to varying degrees neo-corporatist societies, characterized by ongoing bargaining over social and political reform processes. From a theoretical perspective this invites reflections which, to some extent, are at odds with the dominant conceptions of institutional change. Neither models of path dependency nor models of aggregate, incremental change focus on the continuous social bargaining over institutional change. (ii) Despite recent processes of liberalization, common to the Western world as a whole, corporatism implies a close connection between state, public sphere, cultural life, and religion. This also means that institutions are closely bundled, in an even stronger way than assumed for example in the Varieties of Capitalism literature. Furthermore, we only have scarce insight in the way the different spheres of corporatism are connected and interact. In the proposed edited volume we have collected historical-institutional case studies from a broad set of social fields (a detailed outline of contents and contributors is attached): • Critical assessments of Jürgen Habermas’ theory of the public sphere • Can the public sphere be considered an institution? • The central position of the public sphere in social and political change in Norway • Digital transformations and effects of the growing PR industry on the public sphere • Institutionalization of social media in local politics and voluntary organizations • Legitimation work in the public sphere • freedom of expression and warning in the workplace • “Return of religion” to the public sphere, and its effects
Author : Huseyn Aliyev
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 41,47 MB
Release : 2017-08-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0472123106
Huseyn Aliyev examines how, when, and under which conditions democratic institutional reforms affect informal institutions in hybrid regimes, or countries transitioning to democracy. He analyzes the impact of institutional changes on the use of informal practices and what happens when democratic reforms succeed. Does informality disappear, or do elites and populations continue relying on informal structures? When Informal Institutions Change engages with a growing body of literature on informal practices and institutions in political science, economics, sociology, and beyond. Aliyev proposes expanding the analysis of the impact of institutional reforms on informal institutions beyond disciplinary boundaries, and combines theoretical insights from comparative politics with economic and social theories on informal relations. In addition, Aliyev offers insights that are relevant to democratization, institutionalism, and human geography. Detailed case studies of three transitional post-Soviet regimes—Georgia, Moldova, and Ukraine—illustrate the contentious relationship between democratic institutional reforms and informality in the broader post-Soviet context. Aliyev shows that in order for institutional reform to succeed in strengthening, democratizing, and formalizing institutions, it is important to approach informal practices and institutions as instrumental for its effectiveness. These findings have implications not only for hybrid regimes, but also for other post-Soviet or post-communist countries.
Author : Meredith Leigh Weiss
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 37,73 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780804752954
This book examines a recent movement for political reform in Malaysia, contrasting the experience both with past initiatives in Malaysia and with a contemporaneous reform movement in Indonesia, to help us understand how and when coalitions unite reformers from civil and political societies, and how these coalitions engage with the state and society.