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Politics and Governance, 2023 While it is well-known that democratic backsliding imposes a variety of challenges on civil society organisations, it is often assumed that it represses civil society.
Márton Gerő +3 more
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Encyclopedia of Public Administration and Public Policy, Third Edition, 2020 The task of defining the concept of civil society is far from straightforward. Within the history of social and political thought, one is confronted with an abundance of conflicting and ‘competing definitions’ of this term. This lack of definitional clarity indicates that ‘[i]n the social sciences, there is no consensus as to the theoretical and ...
M. Hiramatsu
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Civil Society Reforms in Uzbekistan [PDF]
Ukrainian Policymaker, 2021 The article is devoted to the study of ongoing civil society reforms in Uzbekistan under the new President – Shavkat Mirziyoyev, who has presented a flagship program known as the Strategy of Actions on the five priority areas for midterm development of ...
Eldor Tulyakov
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Civil Society and the Democratic Peace
Journal of Conflict Resolution, 2020 We theorize that three distinct structures of democratic constraint explain why more democratic dyads do not engage in military conflict with each other. We build on earlier theories that focused on electoral and horizontal accountability.
Håvard Hegre, M. Bernhard, Jan Teorell
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Measuring and Comparing Civil Societies
Cosmopolitan Civil Societies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2009 In most countries (Australia is an exception) the term ‘civil society’ is widely used by social researchers, activists and government officials. However its analytical value is limited by its great variety of meanings. The article proposes that if ‘civil
Mark Lyons
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ISLAM DAN CIVIL SOCIETY PERSPEKTIF USHUL FIKIH
Al-Mazaahib, 2022 Term atau konsep civil society merupakan konsep yang berasal dari Barat sehingga konsep tersebut tentu tidak akan pernah bisa ditemukan dalam khazanah pemikiran Islam.
Mustafid Abbas
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International Politics, 2013 This article gauges the influence of transnational advocacy networks on the activities of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) throughout the 1990s. In assessing civil society's advocacy work, this article makes two main contributions. From a theoretical perspective, our case-study lends credit to the emergent literature discussing the gray zone ...
Belloni Roberto, Moschella, Manuela
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ISLAM, (UN)CIVIL SOCIETY AND CHALLENGES FOR DEMOCRATISATION IN INDONESIA
Al-A'raf: Jurnal Pemikiran Islam dan Filsafat, 2022 This article tries to critically examine the idea of civil society in light of Indonesia's Islamist politics. This raises the question of how far the idea of a civil society in a democratic country leads to public civility.
Syaifudin Zuhri
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The Landscape of Civil Society Organizations in the Economy of Kosovo
International Journal of Engineering and Management Sciences, 2020 Civil society organizations (CSOs) in the scientific literature have been studied broadly from various aspects such as cultural, political, social and economic.
Kushtrim Vllasaj
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ACTIVITATEA ORGANIZAȚIILOR NEGUVERNAMENTALE ÎN CONTEXTUL INTEGRĂRI EUROPENE A REPUBLICI MOLDOVA [PDF]
Buletinul Științific al Universității de Stat „B.P. Hasdeu” din Cahul: Științe SocialeMost non-governmental organizations sincerely and well argue for European integration as a strategic perspective for the development of the Republic of Moldova.
Constantin BUSUIOC
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