The book traces the concept and practice of citizens as the primary office holders of government and government's essential responsibility to keep open such freedoms as assembly and association to allow and encourage citizen participation ...
The book ranges across all major schools of contemporary political thought, addressing the inherent goods of liberal polities, the nature of liberty, the concept of civil society and neighborhood, the dialectical interplay of civility and ...
3 Seligman (2002: 28); Hall (1995); Keane (1988); Gellner (1994). 4 Cited in Myers (1996: 53); PerezDiaz (1993). 5 Lewis (2004); Seckinelgin (2004). 6 Edwards (2007). 7 http://www.seasonsfund.org (2007). 8 Hawken (2007).
By placing the tension between 'democracy' and 'civil society' at the centre of the book, Hoffmann's account reveals the dilemmas of civil society and provides a concise and incisive introduction to one of the key concepts in Global History ...
Hann and E. Dunn (eds),CivilSociety: Challenging Western Models. London: Routledge. WidenerLaw Review (2007) “Symposium on EnvisioningaMore Democratic Global System”, Widener Law Review, 13 (2). Wilson, J. (2006) “Civil society: a ...
That fact that most people agree on the literal balance between rights and responsibilities was brought home to me by the surprising similarity of views of the radical Saul Alinsky and the arch conservative William F. Buckley , Jr. For ...
In Islamic studies, as in other disciplines, researchers at all levels are drowning in potentially useful scholarly information, and this guide has been created as a tool for cutting through that material to find the exact source you need.
Examining the historical and social trajectories involved in the continuous development of civil society, this volume reveals the contextual nature of the process.
In Islamic studies, as in other disciplines, researchers at all levels are drowning in potentially useful scholarly information, and this guide has been created as a tool for cutting through that material to find the exact source you need.
Between kinship ties on the one hand and the state on the other, human beings experience a diversity of social relationships and groupings which in modern western thought have come to be gathered under the label 'civil society'.
This book introduces a powerful and innovative approach to measuring, analysing and interpreting civil society." -- the 'Civil Society Diamond'.
The book examines case studies from sub-Saharan Africa, East Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East, and includes such critical countries as South Africa, South Korea, Taiwan, Indonesia, Brazil, Mexico, and Egypt.
This book provides a comprehensive and flexible framework for the definition, measurement, analysis and interpretation of civil society based on the innovative 'Civil Society Diamond'.
Three excellent examples of this line of thinking are U.S. Helsinki Watch Committee, Reinventing Civil Society: Poland's Quiet Revolution (New York: U.S. Helsinki Watch Committee, 1986); Robert Miller, ed., Poland in the Eighties: ...
How should we be thinking about civil society? Civil Society examines the historical, political, and theoretical evolution of how civil society has been understood for the past two and a half millennia.
This book will be of great interest to students and scholars in politics, media studies, sociology, social and political theory, and to a broader public audience interested in the central debates and political developments of our time.
Discussions of the concept of 'civil society', including its use inside and outside the West.
Civil Society argues that civil society should not be studied as a separate, private realm in opposition to the state. To gain a better understanding, everyday social practices, power relations and shared moralities are examined.
The book examines case studies from sub-Saharan Africa, East Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East, and includes such critical countries as South Africa, South Korea, Taiwan, Indonesia, Brazil, Mexico, and Egypt.
Examining the historical and social trajectories involved in the continuous development of civil society, this volume reveals the contextual nature of the process.