Democracy and Civil Society
Author | : John Keane |
Publisher | : London ; New York : Verso |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : John Keane |
Publisher | : London ; New York : Verso |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Lars Trägårdh |
Publisher | : Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | : 358 |
Release | : 2013-05-01 |
Genre | : 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 |
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.
Author | : Elisabeth Jay Friedman |
Publisher | : State University of New York Press |
Total Pages | : 237 |
Release | : 2012-02-01 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0791483843 |
Sovereignty, Democracy, and Global Civil Society explores the growing power of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) by analyzing a microcosm of contemporary global state-society relations at UN World Conferences. The intense interactions between states and NGOs at conferences on the environment, human rights, women's issues, and other topics confirm the emergence of a new transnational democratic sphere of activity. Employing both regional and global case studies, the book charts noticeable growth in the ability of NGOs to build networks among themselves and effect change within UN processes. Using a multidimensional understanding of state sovereignty, the authors find that states use sovereignty to shelter not only material interests but also cultural identity in the face of external pressure. This book is unique in its analysis of NGO activities at the international level as well as the complexity of nation-states' responses to their new companions in global governance.
Author | : Philip D. Oxhorn |
Publisher | : Penn State Press |
Total Pages | : 396 |
Release | : 2010-11-01 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0271043423 |
Author | : Jeffrey Haynes |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 346 |
Release | : 2013-06-28 |
Genre | : 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 |
Total Pages | : 215 |
Release | : 2016-01-06 |
Genre | : 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 | : Gideon Baker |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 202 |
Release | : 2003-08-27 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1134524064 |
This book introduces radically alternative models of civil society that have been developed outside the liberal democratic frame of reference, models which suggest that civil society does offer new and non-statist democratic possibilities. Drawing on a wide range of civil society theory-practice from Eastern Europe and Latin America (including the Zapatistas in Mexico), and from visions of global civil society too, this book is uniquely positioned to consider the questions posed by these alternative voices for democratic theory and practice. * Are there alternatives to the liberal democratic vision of civil society? * Is a democracy located in civil society rather than the state either possible or desirable? * How and why has the concept of civil society come to be used so widely today? * Can global civil society further the struggle for democracy initiated by national civil societies?
Author | : Nancy Gina Bermeo |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780847695508 |
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.
Author | : Marina Ottaway |
Publisher | : Carnegie Endowment |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0870031783 |
The United States and many other international donors have embraced civil-society aid as a key tool of democracy promotion. This collection of essays analyzes civil-society aid in five regions - South Africa, the Philippines, Peru, Egypt and Romania - focusing on crucial issues and dilemmas.