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Civil society and women's NGO's in Serbia [PDF]

open access: yesZbornik Radova Filozofskog Fakulteta u Prištini, 2015
In the paper we examine the position of civil society in Serbia, particularly women's NGOs. In the first part of the paper author will point out the concept and development of the concept of nongovernmental organizations as well as the position and ...
Vuković Ana S.
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Why the frustration?

open access: yesPolitikon, 2014
Civil society organizations play an increasingly important role in global politics. However, during the last years, civil society has become frustrated from the negotiations in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
Sebastian Levi
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Civil Society Organizations and Care of the Self: An Ethnographic Case Study on Emancipation and Participation in Drug Treatment

open access: yesFoucault Studies, 2015
Foucauldian analyses of civil society depart from classical approaches in that they don´t consider civil society to be a site of societal change or resistance as classical analyses do, but rather one of society’s multiple locations where so-called ...
Riikka Perälä
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Civil Society’s History: New Constructions of Ottoman Heritage by the Justice and Development Party in Turkey

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Turkish Studies, 2014
This article examines the impact of JDP’s (Justice and Development Party) neo-Ottomanist heritage politics upon state-civil society relations in Turkey.
Gizem Zencirci
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Civil Society in Germany: Its Conceptualization and Organization

open access: yesSosyal Siyaset Konferansları Dergisi, 2023
Germany has been an important country in the emergence and development of social policy practices and the discipline of social policy science and as such has a characteristic position as a welfare state.
Murat Kalkan
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Strengthening civil society organizations:

open access: yesArchives of Business Research, 2019
The relevance of Civil Society Organizations (CSO) is growing. Due to this, it is pertinent to look for strategies that strengthen them. This work seeks to compare five different theoretical models associated with the strength, institutional capacities, and maturity of CSOs, which allows the integration of a system for evaluating them.
María del Carmen Gutiérrez-Diez   +4 more
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Resisting the Global Crackdown on Civil Society [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Civil society is increasingly coming under assault around the world, as authoritarian governments grow more bold and sophisticated in stifling independent groups that monitor elections, expose corruption, or otherwise give citizens a voice in how they ...
Daniel Calingaert
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Is There a Democracy–Civil Society Paradox in Global Environmental Governance? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Civil society is commonly assumed to have a positive effect on international cooperation. This paper sheds light on one important facet of this assumption: we examine the impact of environmental non-governmental organizations (ENGOs) on ratification ...
Braumoeller Bear F   +5 more
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The Relationship between Local and International Organizations and Community Development

open access: yesJournal of Arts & Social Sciences, 2010
Although there are numerous definitions and theories of the concept of development, many developing countries continue to suffer from problems associated with lack of development and environmental degradation. It seems that states in developing countries
Manal Farouk Sayed Ali
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Global civil society: between nation states and transnational corporations

open access: yesAspekti Publìčnogo Upravlìnnâ, 2017
Global civil society is the subject of the formation of a new world order and the modern humanitarian outlook, which is based on the primacy of justice and human rights.
S. A. Kvitka
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