Civil Society In Modern Democracies

Author : Philipp Alvares de Souza Soares
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 9 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2009-03-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783640278596

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Civil Society in Modern Democracies by Philipp Alvares de Souza Soares Pdf

Essay from the year 2009 in the subject Politics - Political Systems - General and Comparisons, grade: 9 out of 10 points, University of Amsterdam (The Hague University, School for European Studies), course: Contemporary Political Issues, 12 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: The concept of civil society is a controversial and recently often discussed topic in the social sciences. Especially since the end of the socialist regimes in Eastern Europe, in which civil society organizations played an important role, it has been considered as a possible solution for many problems of modern societies and was in the focus of public discussion. This essay tries to find a definition for civil society in its first part and continues by talking about the proclaimed role of it in modern democracies. Several theoretical approaches will be outlined. The already mentioned positive influences will be discussed as well as critically assessed. Afterwards the essay ends with a final conclusion.

Author : Lars Trägårdh,Nina Witoszek,Bron Taylor
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2013-05-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780857457578

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Civil Society in the Age of Monitory Democracy by Lars Trägårdh,Nina Witoszek,Bron Taylor Pdf

Since the emergence of the dissident "parallel polis" in Eastern Europe, civil society has become a "new superpower," influencing democratic transformations, human rights, and international co-operation; co-designing economic trends, security and defense; reshaping the information society; and generating new ideas on the environment, health, and the "good life." This volume seeks to compare and reassess the role of civil society in the rich West, the poorer South, and the quickly expanding East in the context of the twenty-first century's challenges. It presents a novel perspective on civic movements testing John Keane's notion of "monitory democracy": an emerging order of public scrutiny and monitoring of power.

Author : Nancy Gina Bermeo,Philip G. Nord
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 0847695506

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Civil Society Before Democracy by Nancy Gina Bermeo,Philip G. Nord Pdf

Bringing together historians and political scientists, this unique collaboration compares nineteenth-century civil societies that failed to develop lasting democracies with civil societies that succeeded.

Author : Robert Fine,Shirin Rai
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2014-03-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781135218614

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Civil Society by Robert Fine,Shirin Rai Pdf

This volume examines the idea of civil society in its historical and contemporary dimensions. It provides a comprehensive and critical mapping of the idea, the burden of expectation that it has carried, and the intellectual and political dimensions that surround it.

Author : Bin Xu
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2022-08-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781509544004

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The Culture of Democracy by Bin Xu Pdf

Against the bleak backdrop of pressing issues in today’s world, civil societies remain vibrant, animated by people’s belief that they should and can solve such issues and build a better society. Their imagination of a good society, their understanding of their engagement, and the ways they choose to act constitute the cultural aspect of civil society. Central to this cultural aspect of civil society is the “culture of democracy,” including normative values, individual interpretations, and interaction norms pertaining to features of a democratic society, such as civility, independence, and solidarity. The culture of democracy varies in different contexts and faces challenges, but it shapes civic actions, alters political and social processes, and thus is the soul of modern civil societies. The Culture of Democracy provides the first systematic survey of the cultural sociology of civil society and offers a committed global perspective. It shows that, as everyone is eager to have their voice heard, cultural sociology can serve as an “art of listening,” a thoroughly empirical approach that takes ideas, meanings, and opinions seriously, for people to contemplate significant theoretical and public issues.

Author : Jefferey M. Sellers,Anders Lidström,Yooil Bae
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781108427784

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Multilevel Democracy by Jefferey M. Sellers,Anders Lidström,Yooil Bae Pdf

Explores ways to make democracy work better, with particular focus on the integral role of local institutions.

Author : Daniel Judah Elazar
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1412820499

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Covenant and Civil Society by Daniel Judah Elazar Pdf

Part 4 of this important series considers issues of communal solidarity on a postmodern basis. Elazar traces the transition from the covenanted commonwealth of the Protestant Reformation to the civil society of the modern epoch, and explores the covenant's role in the modern statist era and the development of modern democracy. Elazar concludes with an examination of the present and future of covenantal thought.

Author : Gideon Baker
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2003-08-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134524068

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Civil Society and Democratic Theory by Gideon Baker Pdf

This book introduces radically alternative models of civil society that have been developed outside the liberal democratic frame of reference, models which suggest that civil society does offer new and non-statist democratic possibilities. Drawing on a wide range of civil society theory-practice from Eastern Europe and Latin America (including the Zapatistas in Mexico), and from visions of global civil society too, this book is uniquely positioned to consider the questions posed by these alternative voices for democratic theory and practice. * Are there alternatives to the liberal democratic vision of civil society? * Is a democracy located in civil society rather than the state either possible or desirable? * How and why has the concept of civil society come to be used so widely today? * Can global civil society further the struggle for democracy initiated by national civil societies?

Author : Vctor Prez-Daz
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0674766881

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The Return of Civil Society by Vctor Prez-Daz Pdf

This study covers the transition of Spain from a pre-industrial economy, an authoritarian government, and a Roman Catholic-dominated culture, to a modern state based on the interaction of economic and class interests, on a market society and a culture of moral autonomy and rationality.

Author : Carolyn M. Elliott
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015056933552

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Civil Society and Democracy by Carolyn M. Elliott Pdf

This book seeks to make accessible a selection of the best pieces written on civil society and brings together theoretical and empirical material. The essays discuss the theory of civil society, civil society in South Asia in particular and ways of strengthening civil society.

Author : Daniel Elazar
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2018-02-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351291422

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Covenant and Civil Society by Daniel Elazar Pdf

The essence of the covenant tradition is the idea of human beings freely associating for common purposes through pacts of mutual commitment. In the political realm, the idea of covenant has been particularly influential in frontierlands. Reinformed by the idea of the federated commonwealth that emerged out of the Protestant Reformation, covenant eventually fostered the establishment of the United States of America and our modern idea of federalism. More recently, these great products of the covenant tradition helped to bring about the collapse of twentieth-century totalitarianism and fueled a new spirit in contemporary political life throughout the world. A return to political covenantalism seems to be an appropriate response to the crisis of modern civilization and the new epoch after World War II. Covenant and Civil Society is the final volume in Elazar's monumental series The Covenant Tradition in Politics. In it, he traces the tradition's rebirth and development in the modern epoch.Covenant and Civil Society also considers issues of communal solidarity on a postmodern basis. Elazar traces the transition from the covenanted commonwealth of the Protestant Reformation to the civil society of the modern epoch, and explores the covenant's role in the modern statist era and the development of modern democracy. Scandiriavia, and the Latin-Germanic borderlands, many of which are typically thought of as examples of organic or hierarchical models. Elazar argues that a covenantal model is more appropriate and is part of the Western tradition as such.The book concludes with examination of the present and future of covenantal thought. Today, the global spread of federalism, most clearly seen in the formation of the European Union, is also seen in local and private arenas. Elazar considers the benefits of covenantal thought while balancing such optimism with a realistic sense of its limits. As a prescription for change, Covenant and Civil Society is a fundamental and original contribution. Along with the previous volumes in this series, all available from Transaction, it will be of deep interest to historians, social scientists, political theorists, and theologians of all persuasions.

Author : Nicole Bolleyer
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780198758587

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The State and Civil Society by Nicole Bolleyer Pdf

State regulation of civil society is expanding yet widely contested, often portrayed as illegitimate intrusion. Despite ongoing debates about the nature of state-voluntary relations in various disciplines, we know surprisingly little about why long-lived democracies adopt more or less constraining legal approaches in this sphere, in which state intervention is generally considered contentious. Drawing on insights from political science, sociology, comparative law as well as public administration research, this book addresses this important question, conceptually, theoretically, and empirically. It addresses the conceptual and methodological challenges related to developing systematic, comparative insights into the nature of complex legal environments affecting voluntary membership organizations, when simultaneously covering a wide range of democracies and the regulation applicable to different types of voluntary organizations. Proposing the analytical tools to tackle those challenges, it studies in-depth the intertwining and overlapping legal environments of political parties, interest groups, and public benefit organizations across 19 long-lived democracies. After presenting an innovative interdisciplinary theoretical framework theorizing democratic states' legal disposition towards, or their disinclination against, regulating voluntary membership organizations in a constraining or permissive fashion, this framework is empirically tested. Applying Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA), the comparative analysis identifies three main 'paths' accounting for the relative constraints in the legal environments democracies have created for organized civil society, defined by different configurations of political systems' democratic history, their legal family, and voluntary sector traditions. Providing the foundation for a mixed-methods design, three ideal-typical representatives of each path - Sweden, the UK, and France - are selected for the in-depth study of these legal environments' long-term evolution, to capture reform dynamics and their drivers that have shaped group and party regulation over many decades.

Author : John Keane
Publisher : London ; New York : Verso
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Political Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105038444993

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Democracy and Civil Society by John Keane Pdf

Author : Andrew Arato,Jean L. Cohen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780197526583

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Populism and Civil Society by Andrew Arato,Jean L. Cohen Pdf

Introduction -- Populism : why and why now? -- Populism as mobilization and as a party -- Populist governments and their logic -- Populism and constitutionalism -- Alternatives to populism.

Author : Terrell Carver,Jens Bartelson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2010-10-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781136888090

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Globality, Democracy and Civil Society by Terrell Carver,Jens Bartelson Pdf

Globality, Democracy and Civil Society explores the relationship between the concepts of democracy and civil society through a comparison of their meaning and function in different historical and cultural contexts. This volume presents detailed contextual studies in Europe, North America, Japan, Russia and Turkey. The contributors explore different ways of understanding and developing democratic practices and institutions. Rather than projecting the conditions of modern representative, state-centric democracy onto the global realm, they propose ways of rethinking these very conditions in terms of human diversity and difference. This is done by exploring conceptions of democracy that reconcile cultural plurality with democratic practices, and by using a number of examples and perspectives framed by a global context, rather than by geographical divides between East and West. The contributors are not trying to define the concept of civil society, but rather demonstrating the different ways it is deployed in political practice and disseminated through on-going processes of globalisation. This book will be of interest to scholars and students of global democracy and governance, cosmopolitan democracy, the future of civil society in a globalising world, comparative politics and political thought.