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Toward a Global Civil Society

, 2022
Part I: The Concept of Civil Society Part II: The Communitarian Approach Part III: Economic Policy and Social Justice Part IV: The Internationalization of Politics and Economics and the Challenge of Nationalism, Immigration and Minority Conflict Part V ...
M. Walzer
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Civil Society and Political Theory

Crime, Inequality and the State, 2020
Part 1 The discourse of civil society: the contemporary revival of civil society conceptual history and theoreticl synthesis theoretical development in the 20th century.
Jean Louise Cohen, A. Arato
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Alternative Conceptions of Civil Society

, 2020
The idea of civil society has long been central to the Western liberal-democratic tradition, where it has been seen as a crucial site for the development and pursuit of basic liberal values such as individual freedom, social pluralism, and democratic ...
S. Chambers, W. Kymlicka
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What do we know about civil society and regime change thirty years after 1989?

, 2020
This essay discusses the lessons of thirty years of postcommunist politics for our understanding of the relationship between civil society and regime change. It identifies four different modalities of civil society – insurgent, institutionalized, uncivil
M. Bernhard
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Sources of resistance to democratic decline: Indonesian civil society and its trials

, 2020
Amidst a global wave of democratic regression, civil society has often been the last line of defence against campaigns to undermine liberal rights and freedoms.
M. Mietzner
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Retiring into civil society

2020
In this chapter, Laura Jones, Jesse Heley and Sophie Yarker focus on the life-course transitions in later life through exploring the ‘volunteering careers’ of retirees who ‘work’ in a range of different kinds of organisations. Three main themes emerge from their research.
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Civil Society and the Family

2020
The relationship between the family and civil society has always been complex, with the family often regarded as separate from, or even oppositional to, civil society. Taking a fresh empirical approach, this book reveals how such separation underestimates the important role the family plays in civil society.
Esther Muddiman   +2 more
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An Essay on the History of Civil Society

, 2019
1. Of the general characteristics of human nature 2. Of the history of rude nations 3. Of the history of policy and arts 4. Of the consequences that result from advancement of civil and commercial arts 5. Of the decline of nations 6.
A. Ferguson
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Civil Society

American Foreign Policy Interests, 2009
Abstract Historically the concept of ‘civil society’ has been an almost purely western concept, tied to the political emancipation of European citizens from former ‘feudalistic’ ties, monarchy, and the state during the 18th and 19th centuries.
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On Civil Society

Sociological Bulletin, 1999
This chapter is a discussion of approaches to civil society from the opposed aspects of power and culture within the context of God, man and nature; the history, origin, meaning and effect of civil society in Europe and in India; the division between sacred and secular power; questions of vernacularism, pluralism, the varieties of mediation of the one ...
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