Democracy and Civil Society
Author : John Keane
Publisher : London ; New York : Verso
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 41,80 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Political Science
ISBN :
Author : John Keane
Publisher : London ; New York : Verso
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 41,80 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Political Science
ISBN :
Author : Lars Trägårdh
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 21,85 MB
Release : 2013-05-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0857457578
Since the emergence of the dissident “parallel polis” in Eastern Europe, civil society has become a “new superpower,” influencing democratic transformations, human rights, and international co-operation; co-designing economic trends, security and defense; reshaping the information society; and generating new ideas on the environment, health, and the “good life.” This volume seeks to compare and reassess the role of civil society in the rich West, the poorer South, and the quickly expanding East in the context of the twenty-first century’s challenges. It presents a novel perspective on civic movements testing John Keane’s notion of “monitory democracy”: an emerging order of public scrutiny and monitoring of power.
Author : Brian O'Connell
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 22,99 MB
Release : 1999
Category : 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.
Author : Jeffrey Haynes
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 22,99 MB
Release : 2013-06-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0745666965
This book provides an accessible account of popular political, social and economic movements in the Third World. Focusing on poor and marginalized groups within developing countries, it shows how these groups have been stimulated into action by recent demands for political and economic change. Haynes describes the growing interest in democratic change in the Third World during the 1980s and 1990s, and argues that demands for democracy, human rights and economic change were a widespread catalyst for the emergence of hundreds of thousands of popular movements in Latin America, Africa and Asia. Sometimes these took the form of demands for more political representation and greater economic development; others were concerned with environmental protection, the broad position of women and the establishment of Islamic states and societies. Haynes argues that these emerging popular organizations are best regarded as building blocks of civil society that, in time, will enhance the democratic nature of many political environments in the Third World. The book will be welcomed by students and researchers in development studies, politics and sociology.
Author : T. Beichelt
Publisher : Springer
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 25,59 MB
Release : 2016-01-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1137291095
With contributions from experts on democracy promotion, this volume examines civil society development and external civil society promotion in post-socialist Europe. It focuses on countries with a failed or deficient process of democratic consolidation looking at unintended consequences of external democracy promotion on civil society development.
Author : Elisabeth Jay Friedman
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 10,94 MB
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780791463345
Examines the growing power of nongovernmental organizations by looking at UN World Conferences.
Author : Nancy Bermeo
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 45,45 MB
Release : 2000-11-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0742573621
Bringing together historians and political scientists, this unique collaboration compares nineteenth-century civil societies that failed to develop lasting democracies with civil societies that succeeded. Much of the current literature on the connection between civil society and consolidating democracy focuses exclusively on single, contemporary polities that are ever-changing and uncertain. By studying historical cases, the authors are able to demonstrate which civil societies developed in tandem with lasting democracies and which did not. Contrasting these two sets of cases, the book both enlightens readers about individual countries and extracts lessons about the connections between civil society and democracy in contemporary times. Above all, the authors ask the vital but under-researched question, OHow and why does democratic civil society develop?O
Author : Darren Kew
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 36,29 MB
Release : 2016-05-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0815653670
African nations have watched the recent civic dramas of the Arab Spring and Occupy Wall Street asking if they too will see similar civil society actions in their own countries. Nigeria—Africa’s most populous nation—has long enjoyed one of the continent’s most vibrant civil society spheres, which has been instrumental in political change. Initially viewed as contributing to democracy’s development, however, civil society groups have come under increased scrutiny by scholars and policymakers. Do some civil society groups promote democracy more effectively than others? And if so, which ones, and why? By examining the structure, organizational cultures, and methods of more than one hundred Nigerian civil society groups, Kew finds that the groups that best promote democratic development externally are themselves internally democratic. Specifically, the internally democratic civil society groups build more sustainable coalitions to resist authoritarian rule; support and influence political parties more effectively; articulate and promote public interests in a more negotiable fashion; and, most importantly, inculcate democratic norms in their members, which in turn has important democratizing impacts on national political cultures and institutions. Further, internally democratic groups are better able to resolve ethnic differences and ethnic-based tensions than their undemocratically structured peers. This book is a deeply comprehensive account of Nigerian civil society groups in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Kew blends democratic theory with conflict resolution methodologies to argue that the manner in which groups—and states—manage internal conflicts provides an important gauge as to how democratic their political cultures are. The conclusions will allow donors and policymakers to make strategic decisions in their efforts to build a democratic society in Nigeria and other regions.
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Publisher : Routledge
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 21,53 MB
Release :
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ISBN : 1134076762
Author : Philip D. Oxhorn
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 37,48 MB
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0271043423