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2020
In this chapter, Ceryn Evans, Esther Muddiman and Chris Taylor explore the relationship between participation in higher education and the formation of social and political attitudes and civic participation. Their interviews with graduates show that, in many cases, the university ‘experience’ simply confirms or reinforces prior attitudes.
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In this chapter, Ceryn Evans, Esther Muddiman and Chris Taylor explore the relationship between participation in higher education and the formation of social and political attitudes and civic participation. Their interviews with graduates show that, in many cases, the university ‘experience’ simply confirms or reinforces prior attitudes.
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The EU provides financial support to Civil Society in Vietnam through its thematic programmes: (1) The European Instrument for Democracy and Human Rights (EIDHR); (2) the Civil Society Organizations and Local Authorities Thematic Progra mmes (CSO-LA) and
Edyta B. Pietrzak
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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 in Africa or African Civil Society?
Journal of Asian and African Studies, 2001One of the most vociferous and voluminous debates in African politics over the past decade has been over the concept of civil society. Both optimists and pessimists in this debate tend to define (often implicitly) civil society too narrowly and ask of it too much.
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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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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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Governing for Health, 2019
Civil society has been vital to many measures that have improved governance for health. Advocates outside government have inspired many policy and law changes that have resulted in improved health and well-being. Examples include the abolition of slavery,
Fran Baum
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Civil society has been vital to many measures that have improved governance for health. Advocates outside government have inspired many policy and law changes that have resulted in improved health and well-being. Examples include the abolition of slavery,
Fran Baum
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Civil society and the civilizing mission
2020This chapter starts with the liberal conception of a "global civil society". The globalization of the concept of civil society is one aspect of the emergent global civil society, for it shows how civil society ideas and languages and institutions are spreading beyond their place of origin into new contexts.
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2010
Quantifying The Attributes of civil society, in turn, is complicated and slippery, but let us try. Americans are oft en thought to be unusually antigovernment in their political ideology, practically anarchists by European standards. They are supposed to believe in individual reliance, be less inclined than Europeans to have the state help the worst ...
Paul Henderson, Ilona Vercseg
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Quantifying The Attributes of civil society, in turn, is complicated and slippery, but let us try. Americans are oft en thought to be unusually antigovernment in their political ideology, practically anarchists by European standards. They are supposed to believe in individual reliance, be less inclined than Europeans to have the state help the worst ...
Paul Henderson, Ilona Vercseg
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Civil Society, Globalization, and Global Civil Society
Journal of Civil Society, 2008Recently, 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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Journal of World Trade, 1999
In line with a general trend in contemporary global governance, the World Trade Organization has been developing increased links with civil society groups. If conducted well, these contacts can make important contributions towards greater effectiveness and democracy in the global trade regime.
Jan Aart Scholte +3 more
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In line with a general trend in contemporary global governance, the World Trade Organization has been developing increased links with civil society groups. If conducted well, these contacts can make important contributions towards greater effectiveness and democracy in the global trade regime.
Jan Aart Scholte +3 more
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