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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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Civil Society and COVID in China: Responses in an Authoritarian Society

, 2020
Can civil society play a useful role in response to a pandemic like COVID-19 in a one-party state? We explore that issue based on the role of civil society and philanthropy in responding to COVID in China, where a large and innovative—and restricted ...
Ming-Wen Hu, M. Sidel
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Civil Society, Globalization, and Global Civil Society

Journal of Civil Society, 2008
Recently, there has been much discussion of ‘global civil society’. This concept evidently draws on the more familiar civil society concept as related to national societies. What are the consequences of extending the concept in this way? Is global civil society simply civil society writ large, an extension to the international plane of basically the ...
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Civil Society in Asia

Contents: Civil society in Asia, David C. Schak and Wayne Hudson Problematizing European theories of civil society, Wayne Hudson Non-transformative politics: civil society in Singapore, Chua Beng-Huat Thorns in the flesh: civil society as democratizing ...
Wayne Hudson, D. Schak
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Civil Society

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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Civil society in Zimbabwe

Civil Society in the Global South, 2018
77IK article critically examines the meaning of the concept of civil society with reference to Zimbabwe. This is done against the background of renewed scholarly interest in the impact of state-society relations on the process of democratization in the ...
Davison Muchadenyika
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