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The Price of Civil Society

2011
Most work in algorithmic game theory assumes that players ignore costs incurred by their fellow players. In this paper, we consider superimposing a social network over a game, where players are concerned with minimizing not only their own costs, but also the costs of their neighbors in the network.
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Citizenship in Civil Society?

Journal of Civil Society, 2006
This article seeks to provide a conceptual framework to complement and guide the empirical analysis of civil society. The core argument is that civil society must be understood, not as a category of (post)industrialized society, but as one of individualized society.
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The Politics of Civil Society

2013
In the second, revised edition of this indispensable book, the author looks behind 'the mirror of power' to discover the reality of civil society - or 'Big Society', as it has become known.
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Civil Society and Civil Organizations

Organization, 1996
Civil society is analysed from an organizational perspective. Many ideas about the quality of interaction in civil society are similar to ideas about how to create excellent organizations. Although there is no clear definition of civil society, it is first of all understood in contrast to the state.
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The Civil Society Index

2010
Why, when understood as civil society, do major international programs of comparative research on the third sector lack an explicit political framework and associated methodology? Taking the Civicus Civil Society Index as a practical case, answers to this question are explored through a compound hypothesis combining: a particular historical moment; and,
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Civil Society and Government,

Voluntas, 2003
Review of the book by Nancy L. Rosenblum and Robert C.
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The 'Civil' and the 'Political' in Civil Society

Democratization, 2001
The main objective of this article is to interrogate some of the dominant conceptualizations that have come to cluster around the concept of civil society in recent theory. Due to a variety of historical factors, these conceptualizations have romanticized the concept to a large extent.
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Civil Servant, Civil Society

2012
What has sometimes been referred to as the ‘vexed question’ of French bourgeois identity has divided historians since the 1950s when Alfred Cobban proved that the leadership of the French Revolution was not in the hands of a ‘rising commercial, financial and industrial class'.1 The revisionist interpretation of the French Revolution that followed – in ...
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