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Politicized Civil Society in Bangladesh: Case Study Analyses [PDF]

open access: yesCosmopolitan Civil Societies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2017
Although civil society in Bangladesh is recognized for its vibrant performance in social development, it is often criticized for its inability to ensure good governance and democracy.
Farhat Tasnim
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Civil Society Organizations Going European? [PDF]

open access: yesSAGE Open, 2015
This study explores factors that influence Swedish civil society organizations’ (CSOs) degree of activity at different geographical and administrative levels and, in particular, how they are affected by processes of Europeanization in the social welfare ...
Roberto Scaramuzzino, Magnus Wennerhag
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Policy professionals in civil society organizations

open access: yesSociologisk Forskning, 2023
Drawing on 24 interviews with policy professionals in 10 Swedish member-based civil society organizations (CSOs), and observations of policy professionals in three of these, we investigate CSOs from the perspective of their policy teams.
Joanna Mellquist, Adrienne Sörbom
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Mapping Civil Society Formation in Encouraging Issues of Public Accountability in Ngawi Regency, East Java

open access: yesPublica, 2023
Efforts to mainstream the ideas and practices of public accountability are increasingly prominent, in line with the continued development of the practice of the principles of good governance.
Khoyrul Anwar   +3 more
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Leader interlocks in Swedish civil society organizations

open access: yesSociologisk Forskning, 2023
This paper contributes to the understanding of power structures in civil society by the exploring organizational connections of leaders holding multiple top-level leadership positions in resource-rich civil society organizations (CSOs) in Sweden.
Jayeon Lee, Roberto Scaramuzzino
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Representing Women’s Interests in Japan’s Civil Society

open access: yesSocieties, 2021
Japan has witnessed marginalization and underrepresentation of women in its civil society. This study examines its extent. It also explores who in Japan’s civil society represent women’s interests by using survey data from civil society organizations ...
Sae Okura
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The Landscape of Civil Society Organizations in the Economy of Kosovo

open access: yesInternational 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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SMART SUSTAINABLE ISLANDS VS SMART SUSTAINABLE CITIES [PDF]

open access: yesISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 2017
This paper has several aims: a) the presentation of a critical analysis of the terms “smart sustainable cities” and “smart sustainable islands” b) the presentation of a number of principles towards to the development methodological framework of concepts ...
D. N. Pantazis   +11 more
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Transnational social capital: the socio‐spatialities of civil society [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
Civil society remains a contested concept, but one that is widely embedded in global development processes. Transnationalism within civil society scholarship is often described dichotomously, either through hierarchical dependency relations or as a more ...
Abrahamsen R.   +38 more
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