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Author : Dariusz Gawin,Piotr Gliński
Publisher : Ifis Publishers
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Civil society
ISBN : STANFORD:36105122938587
Author : Kerstin Jacobsson,Elżbieta Korolczuk
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2021-10-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781800732063
In much social scientific literature, Polish civil society has been portrayed as weak and passive. This volume offers a much-needed corrective, challenging this characterization on both theoretical and empirical grounds and suggesting new ways of conceptualizing civil society to better account for events on the ground as well as global trends such as neoliberalism, migration, and the renewal of nationalist ideologies. Focusing on forms of collective action that researchers have tended to overlook, the studies gathered here show how public discourse legitimizes certain claims and political actions as “true” civil society, while others are too often dismissed. Taken together, they critique a model of civil society that is ‘made from above’.
Author : Ian McNeely
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 694 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2003-01-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520928527
The Emancipation of Writing is the first study of writing in its connection to bureaucracy, citizenship, and the state in Germany. Stitching together micro- and macro-level analysis, it reconstructs the vibrant, textually saturated civic culture of the German southwest in the aftermath of the French Revolution and Napoleon's invasions. Ian F. McNeely reveals that Germany's notoriously oppressive bureaucracy, when viewed through the writing practices that were its lifeblood, could also function as a site of citizenship. Citizens, acting under the mediation of powerful local scribes, practiced their freedoms in written engagements with the state. Their communications laid the basis for civil society, showing how social networks commonly associated with the free market, the free press, and the voluntary association could also take root in powerful state institutions.
Author : Hsin-Huang Michael Hsiao,Hui Yew-Foong,Philippe Peycam
Publisher : ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2017-06-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789814786157
This volume is based on papers from the second in a series of three conferences that deal with the multi-scalar processes of heritage-making, ranging from the local to the national and international levels, involving different players with different degrees of agency and interests. These players include citizens and civil society, the state, and international organizations and actors. The current volume focuses on the role of citizens and civil society in the politics of heritage-making, looking at how these players at the grass-roots level make sense of the past in the present. Who are these local players that seek to define the meaning of heritage in their everyday lives? How do they negotiate with the state, or contest the influence of the state, in determining what their heritage is? These and other questions will be taken up in various Asian contexts in this volume to foreground the local dynamics of heritage politics.
Author : Paul Henderson,Ilona Vercseg
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781861349699
Set within the context of Europe, this book demonstrates the contribution that community development can make to strengthening civil society. The book interweaves case studies with discussion of community development principles and theory to provide a critical and accessible approach.
Author : Diane Ravitch,Joseph P. Viteritti
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2008-10-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780300129786
divAmericans have reason to be concerned about the condition of American democracy at the start of the twenty-first century. Surveys show that civic participation has declined, cynicism about government has increased, and young people have a weak grasp of the principles that underlie our constitutional system. Crucial questions must be answered: How serious is the situation? What role do schools play in shaping civic behavior? Are current education reform initiatives—such as multiculturalism and school choice—counterproductive? How can schools contribute toward reversing the trend? This volume brings together leading thinkers from a variety of disciplines to probe the relation between a healthy democracy and education. Their original and provocative discussions cut across a range of important topics: the cultivation of democratic values, the formation of social capital in schools and communities, political conflict in a pluralist society, the place of religion in public life, the enduring problems of racial inequality. Gathering together the most current research and thinking on education and civil society, this is a book that deserves the attention of everyone who cares about the quality and future of American democracy./DIV
Author : Caitlin Hamilton,Anuradha Mundkur,Laura J. Shepherd
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000394498
This book proposes that work on the Women, Peace and Security agenda undertaken by civil society actors can be interpreted as a form of care labour that nourishes and sustains the agenda – without which the agenda could not, in fact, succeed. The care labour of civil society is thus a condition of the Women, Peace and Security agenda’s success. United Nations Security Council resolution 1325 is the foundation of a diverse and pluralising policy framework known as the Women, Peace and Security agenda. Over the 20 years since the adoption of the foundational resolution, despite sustained resistance from some quarters and a general lack of adequate resourcing and political will, the agenda has continued to see many successes, and to achieve elements of political transformation large and small. This book explores how the supporting constituency of the agenda has ‘made 1325 work’. Based on new interviews with representatives of diverse civil society organisations working on WPS, the book offers a novel intervention into WPS scholarship, which has thus far paid relatively little attention to the labours of civil society actors working on WPS, particularly on an individual level. The authors consider the motivations, pressures and frustrations experienced by WPS civil society actors, as well as the goals and challenges. This book is based on original research and will be of interest to scholars, policymakers and practitioners working on WPS specifically, and those working in Political Science, International Relations, Development Studies, and on the global governance of peace and security. It will also be relevant for students in WPS-focused programs and of peace and security studies more broadly.
Author : Scott L. Greer,Matthias Wismar,Gabriele Pastorino
Publisher : World Health Organization
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2017-11-20
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789289050432
Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) can make a vital contribution to public health and health systems but harnessing their potential is complex in a Europe where government-CSO relations vary so profoundly. This study is intended to outline some of the challenges and assist policy-makers in furthering their understanding of the part CSOs can play in tandem and alongside government. To this end it analyses existing evidence and draws on a set of seven thematic chapters and six mini case studies. They examine experiences from Austria Bosnia-Herzegovina Belgium Cyprus Finland Germany Malta the Netherlands Poland the Russian Federation Slovenia Turkey and the European Union and make use of a single assessment framework to understand the diverse contexts in which CSOs operate. The evidence shows that CSOs are ubiquitous varied and beneficial and the topics covered in this study reflect such diversity of aims and means: anti-tobacco advocacy food banks refugee health HIV/AIDS prevention and cure and social partnership. CSOs make a substantial contribution to public health and health systems with regards to policy development service delivery and governance. This includes evidence provision advocacy mobilization consensus building provision of medical services and of services related to the social determinants of health standard setting self-regulation and fostering social partnership. However in order to engage successfully with CSOs governments do need to make use of adequate tools and create contexts conducive to collaboration. To guide policy-makers working with CSOs through such complications and help avoid some potential pitfalls the book outlines a practical framework for such collaboration. This suggests identifying key CSOs in a given area; clarifying why there should be engagement with civil society; being realistic as to what CSOs can or will achieve; and an understanding of how CSOs can be helped to deliver.
Author : Annette Zimmer,Eckhard Priller
Publisher : VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften
Page : 708 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2013-12-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783322809803
The handbook provides practical knowledge pertinent to civil society organizations. It is specifically designed to meet the demands of organizations in Central Europe and addresses lecturers, students, staff and volunteers of NPOs. Das Handbuch stellt praxisrelevantes Wissen zur Führung einer zivilgesellschaftlichen Organisation parat und ist speziell auf die besonderen Bedarfe Mitteleuropas abgestimmt.
Author : Pekka Seppälä
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 105 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Developing countries
ISBN : 9514562496
Author : T. Brandsen,W. Trommel,B. Verschuere
Publisher : Springer
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2014-05-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137351630
Faced with falling social cohesion governments have sought to revitalise society by trying to reconstruct local communities, civil society and citizenship. As a result, civil society is increasingly brought within the realm of public management, subject to accountability and embedded in hierarchies the impact and origins of which this book explores
Author : Adam Ferguson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1767
Category : Civil society
ISBN : OXFORD:590358119
Author : Laura J. Shepherd
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2021-09-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000462487
The Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda is comprised of the policies, protocols and practices enacted by a wide range of actors inspired by, or under the auspices, of the UN Security Council resolutions adopted under the title of ‘women and peace and security’. Since the adoption of the first resolution in 2000, resolution 1325, there have been nine others, each of which elaborates or extends aspects of the original resolution. This book provides a forward-looking collection of scholarship on the WPS agenda in two halves. The first half of the book presents a series of essays that each provide a glimpse of the rich and insightful research on WPS being undertaken in and about different contexts, to demonstrate the importance of centring the "local" as a site of knowledge production in the WPS agenda. The essays presented in the second half of the book also engage questions of knowledge production, documenting the exploratory methods in use in WPS scholarship, and highlighting those topics engaged at the hinterlands of what is a broad field – topics that gesture at the future of research in this area. The chapters in this book were originally published as special issues of the International Feminist Journal of Politics.
Author : Raffaele Marchetti
Publisher : Springer
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2016-10-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781349949380
This book analyzes how international organizations and the European Union engage with civil society to pursue their policy goals. Multi-stakeholder initiatives, private-public partnership, sub-contracting, political alliances, hybrid coalitions, multi-sectoral networks, pluralist co-governance, and indeed foreign policy by proxy are all considered. Bringing together the most advanced scholarship, the book examines trade, environment, development, security, and human rights with reference to both EU and global institutional settings such as the WTO, UN Climate Summits, FAO, IFAD, ICC, UNHRC, UNSC, and at the EU level the DG FISMA, TRADE, CLIMA, DEVCO, HOME and ECHO. The book also studies the use of NGOs in the foreign policy of the EU, USA, and Russia. This changing politics and the polarized debate it has generated are explored in detail.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2024-07-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781134151875